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ZELENKA Music from 18th Century Prague

These three 20-minute cantatas, dating from 1709, 1712 and 1716 respectively, receive their world premiere commercial recordings with this release....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2012

TELEMANN Matthew Passion

Those who shudder with disbelief at the idea of Telemann composing over 40 passions should bear in mind that Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2012

RACHMANINOV Romances

Though Dmitri Hvorostovsky revisits repertoire he recorded in his 1991 ‘Russian Romances’ disc in the heady months following his sensational...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012

POULENC Complete Songs Vol. 3

This is the third volume in the impressive coverage of all Poulenc’s songs masterminded by the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:

MENDELSSOHN Christus & Cantates Chorales

Many readers will know the recitative, trio and chorus that begins ‘When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem’. It...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2012

MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn

A loose miscellany rather than a defined cycle, Des Knaben Wunderhorn has ‘grow’d like Topsy’ in recent years. Michael Gielen...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012

de la RUE Portrait Musical

For my money, Capilla Flamenca is currently among the top two or three ensembles for early Renaissance polyphony, and Pierre...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2012

DELIUS Complete Songbook Vol. 2

Mark Stone here offers the second volume of his project to record Delius’s songs complete. With his consistently sensitive singing,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2012

CHERUBINI Arias and Overtures

This is not the grand, passionate Cherubini of post-Revolutionary Paris, admired by Beethoven, Weber and (more ambiguously) Berlioz, but a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:

BRITTEN Winter Words

Nicholas Phan’s debut recital recording in an all-Britten programme initially seems strategically quixotic. Though American singers do justice to Britten,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012

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