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This is the fourth disc to be devoted exclusively to the music of Julian Anderson and the second such venture...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016
Back in the May 2005 issue of Gramophone, Bryce Morrison extolled the virtues of a Scarlatti disc by a young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Aficionados of French (or France-based) opera will warm to ‘Paris, mon amour’ by the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Schooled in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/15
In their search for the vocal stars of the future, Rosenblatt Recitals have enjoyed an impressive hit-rate. Now that the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016
This is a curious project. Suzi Digby and her new professional choir ORA champion today’s British choral composers as the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
This collection revolves around a range of seldom-performed songs by Charpentier. The title alludes to three stanzas on texts taken...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, vocal ensemble Magnificat directed by Philip Cave have created a programme of Renaissance polyphonic works...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016
Theorbist Marco Horvat and his Ensemble Faenza turn their collective microscope on the obscure mid-18th-century musician Giovanni Zamboni. Possibly Roman...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote pins her colours to the mast in this recital, subtitled ‘Woman and Man, The Human Soul...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016
The bar has been set – high – in Schmidt’s great setting of the Apocalypse by Harnoncourt and Kristjan Järvi...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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