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LEIFS Complete Songs

Jón Leifs wrote songs throughout his career, works which ‘give unusually clear insights into the composer’, according to Árni Heimir...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2016

HOMILIUS Der Messias

The Homilius revival marches on. Following a clutch of recordings from Carus, CPO gets in on the act with the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

Handel at Vauxhall

There is not much cast-iron proof about the concert programmes performed at Vauxhall Gardens on any given night during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings

Founded in 2010, Aldeburgh Strings bring together advanced students for intensive periods of study. Their tutors are leading musicians from...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2016

BERTALI La Maddalena

Apart from the well-known Ciaconna and the Lamento della Regina d’Inghilterra recorded by Anne Sofie Von Otter some years ago...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH St John Passion

The Bavarian Radio Chorus under Peter Dijkstra add the St John Passion to their discography of major Baroque oratorios. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH Secular Cantatas VI

It has been a while since a new account of the Trauer Ode appeared in its original form – as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016

RAVEL L’Heure espagnole. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

This is a companion to the CD of L’enfant et les sortilèges (12/15), recorded during the same week in January...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016

ORFF Gisei. WEINGARTNER Die Dorfschule

Though released separately, these two one-act rarities formed a double-bill in concert performances at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper in 2012, and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016

HONEGGER/ IBERT L’Aiglon

Co-written by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert, L’Aiglon was first performed in Monte Carlo in March 1937. An adaptation of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016

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