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Songs & Sonnets - Songs In English and German from the Reign of Queen Victoria

‘I found I could get along better with the German than the English words’, confided Hubert Parry in a diary...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019

HANDEL Cantate 03

Contrasto Armonico’s slow-burning Handel cantatas project explores often-performed Italian cantate con stromenti in context alongside neglected chamber cantatas for only...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019

GRANDI Motets

It is said that when Alessandro Grandi left Venice (where he was born and had been trained and worked all...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2019

CASKEN The Dream of the Rood

He might not enjoy the highest profile but John Casken (70 earlier this year) has amassed a substantial and varied...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 8 (Harriet Burns)

At heart, if not always in practice, a man of the people, Brahms engaged deeply with folk song throughout his...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem (Harding)

On their own – rather than singing in consort with other choruses as they do on several previous recordings –...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

BERLIOZ Requiem (Nelson)

We’re immediately back on the old concert Requiem dilemma of devotion or drama. Leading candidates on disc from the past...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2019

JS BACH Keyboard Works (Scott Ross)

‘Mixture of rascally thug and dandy’ is how one reminiscence describes Scott Ross, and when one hears stories of his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2019

Hermine Forray: Lumiere & Mediterannee

The blurb on the back cover claims that the present recording comes across ‘like a live recital’. Perhaps this has...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

THALBERG Fantasies on French Operas (Mark Viner)

Things didn’t begin too promisingly: I spent the first track pondering the genius of Liszt’s transcriptions. Which was unfortunate, given...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2019

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