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Decades: A Century of Song Vol 2

Launched by Malcolm Martineau with a splendid percussive vigour, the equestrian night ride of ‘Auf der Brücke’ makes an invigorating...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

WALTON Façade

Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The Archers) and Zeb...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017

VERDI Requiem

Verdi’s Requiem launched the LSO’s 2016 17 Barbican season last September in performances that, by all accounts, were high-voltage occasions....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017

VECCHI Requiem

While not exactly a revelation (given its audible debt to Ensemble Organum), Graindelavoix’s recent recording of Machaut’s Mass was vocally...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017

SCHUMANN Einsamkeit

There’s a certain overlap between this new Schumann disc from Matthias Goerne and one he recorded in the early 2000s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

Dessay Sings Schubert

Having admired Natalie Dessay in operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Massenet and Strauss, I’m sorry not to be more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

SCARLATTI St John Passion

Scholars used to think that Scarlatti’s St John Passion was a very early work influenced by two similar settings by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017

MONTEVERDI Night. Stories of Lovers and Warriors

As anniversaries go, 450 isn’t much of a round number, but since it will be another quarter-century until the next...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017

Eternal Monteverdi

It is not a new idea to place Monteverdi’s church music from sources later than the famous 1610 collection into...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017

GRAINGER Folk Music

Folk music collections such as this are not nearly as simple to bring off as they might seem. Percy Grainger’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017

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