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Irene Scharrer Complete Recordings

Irene Scharrer was the soloist on one of the best-selling classical 78s of all time: the Scherzo from Litolff’s Concerto...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

Erika Sunnergårdh sings Wagner, Beethoven & Strauss

This Erika Sunnegårdh aria and song showcase disc is not for the unconverted. Though the programming is ambitious, her colleagues...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014

VERDI Requiem

DVD recordings of Verdi’s ‘opera in ecclesiastical robes’ have become more commonplace in recent years, the catalogue now boasting (mostly)...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2014

VAN CAMP The Feasts of Fear and Agony

Formerly a professional violinist, the Belgian composer Bram Van Camp (b1980) has established himself as a composer of no mean...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2014

ROSSI Italian Madrigals and Hebrew Prayers

Basle-based Israeli vocal ensemble Profeti della Quinta were worthy winners of the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2014

MONTEVERDI Madrigals of Love and Loss

The latest disc from Jonathan Cohen’s virtuoso ensemble Arcangelo is a musical love story, complete with lovers’ quarrel (a sword-battle...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2014

MAHLER; RIHM Orchestral Songs

This disc gets off to a delightful start with ‘Lob des hohen Verstandes’, where a rustic singing competition between a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014

LUDFORD Missa Dominica

Nicholas Ludford is one of the most intriguing of early Tudor composers, a healthy proportion of whose surviving work has...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2014

LOBO Misas 'Prudentes Virgines'. Beata Dei Genitrix

Alonso Lobo is principally known today for his motet Versa est in luctum, but the rest of his output isn’t...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2014

The Complete John Ireland Songbook Vol 1

Mark Stone uses all his gifts in this splendid collection of John Ireland’s songs to bring out their varied range...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2014

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