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HANDEL Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Bolton)

There’s an unexpected opening to this Giulio Cesare, recorded in 2021 at the Theater an der Wien: a brief recitative...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

BLECH Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Ward)

Record collectors have never entirely forgotten Leo Blech (1871-1958), the Aachen-born, Berlin-based conductor of a generation whose careers were derailed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

Marina Rebeka: Voyage

Duparc’s invitation to travel is an apt starting point for an enterprising programme with multiple explorations. The programme encompasses French...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2022

Under der Linden

One of the difficulties facing anybody who wishes to perform the German Minnesang repertory is that almost all the surviving...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2022

The Sword & the Lily: 15th-Century Polyphony for Judgement Day

I am enormously fond of a good programme concept and this debut album from early music ensemble Fount & Origin...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2022

Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias (Nicolò Balducci)

‘Castrapolis’ was the name coined by novelist Dominique Fernandez for 18th-century Naples – a city that was home to a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

WERT Versi d'Amore

Giaches de Wert’s scant discography is no reflection of his music’s intrinsic worth, or its influence on later composers (not...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2022

WALTON The Complete Façades (Falletta)

This is a potentially useful round-up of all Façade’s completed material a century on from its first composition. It contains...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs, Vol 4. 'Serenade'

The lion’s share of the fourth – and final – instalment in Albion Records’ project to record Vaughan Williams’s complete...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022

SIBELIUS Orchestral Songs (Marianne Beate Kielland)

As winter creeps in, you could do worse than seek synergy and solace in the amassed depressions, longings and forebodings...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022

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