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GRAUN Silla (De Marchi)

Carl Heinrich Graun owes his career to patron Frederick the Great, whose passion for music in general (and Italian opera...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023

Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Famously bought cheaply at auction as part of a job lot by a Belgian art dealer who thought only a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2023

Orchestral Anthems: Elgar, Finzi, Dyson, Howells

Although orchestras were not foreign phenomena to chapels and cathedrals – they were de rigueur in Charles II’s Chapel Royal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2023

The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla

In his sermon at St Paul’s Cathedral on the occasion of the United Guilds’ Service of the City of London...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023

Reginald Mobley: Because

‘“Because” reflects our wish to give this powerful repertoire [of African American songs] a new interpretation,’ write the two artists,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

VINDERS Missa Fors Seulement. Secular Songs

There are perhaps two discoveries here. I say ‘perhaps’, because both things are already known. Jheronimus Vinders is one of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023

Portraits of A Mind

For all that this album takes its title from – and, as the booklet states unequivocally, ‘centres on’ – Ian...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023

TJØRNHØJ Entmenscht

For Line Tjørnhøj, the human voice is a rare expression of truth in our bewildering deepfake world. Tjørnhøj’s multimedia vocal...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2023

SCHUMANN Dichterliebe. Kerner Lieder (Florian Boesch)

I can’t think of many song discs that have left me with such ambivalent feelings as this. Live and on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023

SCHUBERT 'Stimme der Liebe'

It comes as a shock to realise how few commercial recordings the Partridges, brother and sister, made together. Once upon...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2023

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