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The Image of Melancholy

‘The most wonderful recording session of my life,’ says Bjarte Eike in the booklet to this disc, and indeed the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014

Diana Damrau: Forever

Diana Damrau describes this CD as a ‘soundtrack of memory’, which takes her on a very personal journey from Vienna...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014

Exaudi: Exposure

The University of Huddersfield boasts a Centre for Research in New Music, and several of the composers represented on this...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014

SHEPPARD Choral Works

John Sheppard’s standing among modern commentators is mixed: David Wulstan’s defence of him against his detractors (witheringly styled ‘pundits’) was...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014

SCHÜTZ Psalmen Davids

The Psalmen Davids of 1619 marked Schütz’s first foray into the realm of sacred music. In its monumentality and its...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater

The vast Stabat mater discography offers plenty of outstanding interpretations catering for different tastes. Nevertheless, Julia Lezhneva’s bright-eyed tone and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014

HEGGIE Here/After - Songs of Lost Voices

The haunting cover photo of the dishevelled sculptor Camille Claudel sets the conceptual tone for song-cycles by Jake Heggie that,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014

FAURÉ Mélodies

Though no stranger to the microphone, Ailish Tynan gets in her own way with a sometimes over-sung recital of songs...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014

A Festival of Britten

For the past few years the National Youth Choir of Great Britain has been among the stars of the BBC...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014

BRITTEN The Five Canticles

The Wigmore Hall was first out of the stocks in November 2012 with its anniversary programme to mark Britten’s centenary....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014

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