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DEBUSSY La Boîte à joujoux. Khamma. Jeux

>‘The characters of this ballet are like moths in the night, like children who do not know the rules of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

BORENSTEIN Violin Concerto

Although his music has attracted significant premieres and several recordings, this is the highest-profile disc yet devoted to the British-French-Israeli composer...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

Silence and Music

If you look back through the Gabrieli Consort’s discography you can see a new trend emerging. Among the large-scale works...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017

MACHAUT Nostre Dame

Nowadays it is rare for recordings of early polyphony to span Machaut, Victoria and everything in between. The Vienna Vocal Consort are...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

Handel Goes Wild

You could be forgiven if you failed to recognise the overture to Handel’s Alcina behind the jazz piano breaks, plucked bass and klezmer...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

The Ear of the Huguenots

The first main virtue of this issue is that nothing here seems to have been recorded before, apart from Palestrina’s Mass...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2017

Crazy Girl Crazy

One of music’s great risk-takers, Barbara Hannigan goes out on a limb with ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, her debut album as...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson

Stephen Wilkinson, who turned 98 this spring, is probably best known as the conductor who led the BBC Northern Singers from 1954...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

SVIRIDOV Russia Adrift

Sviridov’s Russia Adrift (also translated as Russia Cast Adrift – the Russian is Otchalivshaya Rus’; either will work) is becoming something of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2017

RISTORI Cantatas for Soprano

Giovanni Alberto Ristori (c1692-1753) came to prominence composing operas, such as a setting of Orlando furioso (1713) produced in Venice...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2017

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