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Joy & Sorrow Unmasked: Arias and Orchestral works by Bach and Handel

DVD recordings of concerts do not always promise the most exciting of visual spectacles, especially when filmed in an auditorium...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

Easter Cantatas of 18th-century Gdansk

Someone, it seems, is keen on putting Gdan´sk on the musical map of Europe. A little while ago I reviewed...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

WOLF Lieder

Hugo Wolf’s songs tend to be such self-sufficient worlds in miniature that one rarely sees them given the sort of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

TELEMANN Luther Cantatas

This disc brings together five cantatas closely associated with Luther, mostly on texts by Telemann’s long-term collaborator Erdmann Neumeister and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014

TALLIS Missa Puer natus est nobis

The first recording of Tallis’s Missa Puer natus est nobis dates from 2001 – a result not of neglect but...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

This certainly isn’t the most mellifluous Schöne Müllerin around. While Florian Boesch’s baritone is resonant and colourful, a dulcet legato...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014

RYPDAL Melodic Warrior. And the Sky was Coloured with Waterfalls and Angels

Terje Rypdal (b1947) is hard to pin down stylistically. His roots are in jazz (as trumpeter and guitarist) but, like...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2014

RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil

Having been thoroughly bowled over by the Latvian Radio Choir’s luxurious 2011 recording of this choral masterpiece – a Gramophone...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2014

MOZART Litaniae Lauretanae. Vesperae de Domini. Waisenhausmesse

The choristers of New College, Oxford, ranging in age from nine to 13, ‘cheerfully state the obvious truth that we...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2014

MARAZZOLI Occhi Belli, Occhi Neri

The renowned Parmesan harpist and tenor Marco Marazzoli (c1605-1662) benefited from the patronage of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, whose family secured...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

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