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Bouillabaisse: French Cantatas & Chansons

There’s nothing icthyological, or even marine, about the contents, so the title ‘Bouillabaisse’ is a puzzle; the name of the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016

VIVALDI Laudate!

This marks the debut recording of the Tulipa Consort, founded by the experienced Dutch soprano Johanette Zomer, whose discography has...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

SCHÜTZ St John Passion

Along with most of his other narrative works, Schütz’s three Passion settings date from the last decade of his life....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

SCHUBERT Lieder

‘Slow and soft’ were dominant epithets in David Patrick Stearns’s review of Florian Boesch’s earlier Schubert recital (Hyperion, 3/14). In...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

MADIN Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV

‘Possibly of Irish origin’, says Grove, but the booklet-note states firmly that Henry Madin (1698-1748) was the son of a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016

MACHAUT A Burning Heart

In this third instalment of the series, The Orlando Consort present a kind of minimalist Machaut. Most of the songs...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

The Love Songs of Jehan de Lescurel

Jehan de Lescurel’s known songs are all in a single manuscript from the second decade of the 14th century, and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2016

HANDEL Coronation Anthems

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s scribbles on his order of service reveal that the music did not go smoothly during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare

These two works were composed either side of Castelnouvo-Tedesco’s emigration to the United States in 1939 following Mussolini’s introduction of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

CAMPRA Requiem. De Profundis

The manuscript of André Campra’s Messe des morts in the Bibliothèque Nationale does not reveal when or why it was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

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