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Véronique Gens: Visions

This tremendous, heady disc finds Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet examining sub-cults of visionaries, saints and mystics in some of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017

LULLY Armide

Armide (1686) was the last collaboration between Lully and the librettist Quinault. Considered by contemporaries as the perfect exemplar of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2017

STANFORD Choral Music

If a disc of sacred Victoriana conjures images of kid gloves and more-tea-vicar, then this is the recording to banish...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2017

MACHAUT Sovereign Beauty

I’ve hardly been stinting in my praise of the previous instalments of this series, but this is finer still. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2017

FAURÉ The Complete Songs, Vol 2

The second instalment of Malcolm Martineau’s survey of Fauré’s songs is exceptionally beautiful, both in choice of material and quality...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017

LECLAIR Violin Concertos Op 7, Nos 1, 3 , 4 & 5

When so much historically informed Baroque performance necessarily incorporates a hefty proportion of guesswork, the music of violinist-composer Jean-Marie Leclair...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017

HANDEL Water Music. Alexander's Feast

Every now and then a recording’s arrival equates to Christmas coming early, and for me this was one of those....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata No 1

A student of, among others, the famous violin pedagogue Zakhar Bron, Vadim Gluzman carries forwards a Russian-Jewish playing tradition that...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017

MONTEVERDI The Other Vespers

There is only one eyewitness report of Monteverdi directing Vespers music after his permanent relocation to Venice: the Dutch tourist...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2017

Strauss in St Petersburg

The prime mover for this delightful collection is Vauxhall – not south of the Thames in London but a 17-mile...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017

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