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Susan Bullock: Songs My Father Taught Me

The gender-switch in this common title is significant. The homey passing-on tradition, suggested by the many ‘Songs My Mother Taught...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

The Madrigal Reimagined

It didn’t take long for the madrigal to become a vehicle for all manner of experimentation – reworkings of texts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2024

Bach's Roots. Early Influences on the Young Master

Investigations on record of Bach’s immediate central-German precursors have often relied on content from composers actually related to him, especially...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

Donna Barbara - Songs of Barbara Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi accompanied herself on the lute at various Venetian academies, so there is something to be said for present-day...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STRADELLA Ester (Vinkour)

Ester, liberatrice del popolo Ebreo was probably written in the early 1670s for one of Rome’s confraternities that sponsored Lenten...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STANFORD Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

These artists have already served notice of their commitment to this exquisitely wrought repertoire with an uncommonly beautiful recording (10/23)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2024

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Julian Prégardien)

A child of the 18th century, Schubert’s first interpreter, the baritone Johann Michael Vogl, would routinely subject melodic lines to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN Carousel

It’s the best kind of logic – follow Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first Broadway show Oklahoma! with their second. This again...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024

PARRY I Was Glad

Although Parry is often thought of as a composer of Anglican church music, he did in fact write very little...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2024

HAYDN Seven Last Words (Helen Kearns)

I didn’t ‘get’ this touched-up version of the Seven Last Words when I first heard it courtesy of the Henschel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024

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