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Stephan Loges: Nature's Solace

Stephan Loges’s recent appearances on disc have been largely in oratorio and earlier Lieder (by Mendelssohn), but here he offers...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019

Kate Macoboy: Michelangelo’s Madrigal

Though a standard combination in Italy at the beginning of the 16th century, voice and lute are not heard today...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2019

Messa per Rossini (Chailly)

It was shortly after Rossini’s death in November 1868 that Verdi proposed the writing of a Messa per Rossini, a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2019

Voces8: Enchanted Isle

‘Enchanted Isle’ is a disc in the throes of an identity crisis. Presumably designed to straddle the elusive classical-popular divide,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2019

Amarae Morti

Here is a delightful disc made to an interesting recipe: Lamentation texts in alternation with joyful settings of Regina caeli...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2019

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Damrau; Kaufmann; Deutsch)

In the depths of winter, who isn’t longing for a summer holiday, and – even better – a holiday romance?...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2019

SULLIVAN The Light of the World

Now here’s a genuine find. Premiered to enormous acclaim at the 1873 Birmingham Musical Festival, the 31-year-old Arthur Sullivan’s large-scale...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2019

RORE Vieni, dolce Imeneo. Le Vergine

Given his renown as a composer of madrigals, it comes as a shock that Cipriano de Rore’s discography is so...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2019

HAYDN Il ritorno di Tobia

Asked by the Zurich period orchestra La Scintilla to choose a work for a charity performance, Nikolaus Harnoncourt gave a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2019

HANDEL Messiah (Hill)

The size and nature of forces employed in the history of Messiah, and their impact on performance practices over the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2019

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