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JS BACH Italian Concerto (Federico Colli)

My last encounter with Federico Colli was a slightly frustrating one, with his readings of Scarlatti at times seeming overly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019

HANDEL Italian Cantatas

The Arcadia evoked in Handel’s Italian cantatas can be a pretty cruel and cynical place, especially if you’re an amorous...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018

Vienna: Fin de Siècle (Barbara Hannigan)

After a well-received album of Satie for the French composer’s anniversary, Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw (having transitioned from...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

Sing Levy Dew

In the decade since its foundation, in 2008, the Girls’ Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, have garnered well-deserved plaudits...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2018

Pater peccavi: Music of Lamentation from Renaissance Portugal

This exquisite late Renaissance Portuguese polyphonic repertoire is as richly expressive as it is politically poised. Written under the rule...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2018

Les Maîtres du Motet Français

A collection of French Baroque music without so much as a fan flutter of courtly secularity or a mouthful of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018

In Remembrance

In the centenary of the end of the First World War, this recording features a variety of vocal works written...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2018

For the Fallen. Lest We Forget

Marking the centenary of the November 1918 Armistice, these two discs from Signum present two very different interpretations of choral...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018

Renée Fleming: Broadway

After her previous forays into jazz and indie-pop, to say nothing of her recent stint on Broadway as Nettie Fowler...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

Jakub Józef Orliński: Anima Sacra

Some really excellent concert performances in London – both in recital and opera – have whetted the appetite for the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018

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