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CAVALLI Opera duets and arias

At his death, Monteverdi left us a small, precious handful of operas. Even allowing for those lost, his output in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016

Wild Men of the Seicento. The Genteel Companion

You only have to compare the titles of these two recordings to realise what an inspired idea it was to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2016

Les Voyages de l’Amour

‘Les voyages de l’Amour’ takes its name from a 1736 opéra-ballet by Boismortier. Looking at the instrumentation for that work,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016

Pardessus de Viole

A pardessus recital is a rarity, indeed! Fine treble viol plays are reasonably thick on the ground these days but...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016

Alison Balsom: Légende

Enescu’s Légende gives its title to this album, and it sets the mood. It’s too serious to count as a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

Kerson Leong: Bis - Music for Violin and Piano

Hot on the heels of the astonishing Leonidas Kavakos and his unfashionable programme of violin encores (Decca, 6/16) comes a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

MATTHEWS. SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

David Matthews’s Piano Quintet is modest both in dimensions and in ambitions: the titles of its four movements – Praeludio,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2016

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas

Dabringhaus und Grimm served Hindemith’s sonatas well in the mid-1990s with a seven-volume survey of 31 of them by Ensemble...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016

GORECKI Genesis I KORNDORF In Honour of Alfred Schnittke

His Symphony No 3 propelled him to chart-topping stardom, thanks to its beatific, anaesthetising simplicity. Now whenever Henryk Górecki gets...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 07/2016

GODARD Violin Sonatas

Benjamin Godard trained as a violinist before turning to composition. Though he soon expressed a marked preference as a performer...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

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