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Ostsee: Church Music by Bertouch, Theile & Vierdanck

‘Bertouch’s distinction did not lie in producing music of intrinsic value or interest.’ It takes chutzpah to dismiss the composer...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2014

The Medici Castrato

Gualberto Magli (d1625) was one of the great voices of his age. In 1608 he sang at the wedding celebrations...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

A Recital With Renée Fleming

Here Renée Fleming joins a long line of star recitalists falling victim to later-career stage affectation. Though Maria Callas can’t...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

ZELENKA Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae

If the ‘Z’ section of your CD library is looking under-nourished, you ought quickly to acquire this new addition to...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2014

WARD Fantasies and Verse Anthems

John Ward has had an odd career on record. He was just another name (mostly forgotten unless you were a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2014

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Cambridge Mass

That a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra and soloists by Vaughan Williams should only have received its world premiere performance...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Romances

‘Dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the Russian genius of music’, as the booklet proclaims, this disc showcases two talented...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

TAVENER Akhmatova Requiem. Six Russian Folk Songs

I have maintained since the moment I heard it in 1981 that Tavener’s Akhmatova Requiem is a masterpiece. Not many...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2014

SULLIVAN On Shore and Sea

Recordings of Sullivan’s choral music are a rare commodity these days, and even rarer still are performances of these two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014

STRADELLA La Forze delle Stelle

Sebastiano Baldini was a poet so well known as a writer of texts for music in his native Rome that...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2014

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