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Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau

This follows the pattern of Sabine Devieilhe’s recital ‘Le grand théâtre de l’amour’ (Erato, 2/14) by fashioning a sequence of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

Itziar Galdos: Colores

This is an original and inventive anthology of songs by Spanish composers, but avoiding the Castilian language, presenting instead works...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2014

WARLOCK Choral works

A master miniaturist, Peter Warlock is at his best in the songs – both solo and choral – that make...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014

STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex. Apollon Musagète

Anyone familiar with the old Philips recording (6/55) of Stravinsky conducting his Oedipus rex, and Jean Cocteau summoning the audience...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS Lieder

In his introduction to the booklet Thomas Hampson says that he wanted to mark Strauss’s 150th anniversary by offering a...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Six Romances. Suite on Poems by Michelangelo

Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014

RACHMANINOV Vespers

It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014

A Purcell Collection

Voces8 here make use of their intermediate size – neither a choir nor strictly a one-to-a part ensemble – to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

A & G MAHLER Lieder

Glasgow-based Linn Records continues to do well by its Scottish artists. As anybody who has heard Karen Cargill in 19th-century...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014

HANDEL Duetti da Camera

Last year, the soprano Robert Invernizzi joined forces with the mighty mezzo Sonia Prina for a disc of Baroque duetti...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014

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