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SAINT-SAËNS Mélodies

This disc signifies a dual artistic emergence. As a composer of mélodies, Saint-Saëns comes out from behind the shadow of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017

PEERSON A Treatie of Humane Love

Martin Peerson’s ‘Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique’ (1630) contains five-part songs on poems from Caecilia by Sir Fulke Greville (the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017

MOZART Great Mass in C minor

Just two months after the appearance of Masaaki Suzuki’s C minor Mass, here is another that takes an interesting editorial...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017

MENDELSSOHN Elias

Of Mendelssohn’s works only the Scottish and Italian symphonies had a longer, more fraught gestation than Elijah. The composer wanted...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

Forgotten Liszt

It’s difficult to escape the air of academicism surrounding this disc, which was programmed by the musicologist-conductor Michael Vitalino while...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017

ELGAR The Spirit of England BAX In Memoriam

Here’s another welcome helping of choral Elgar courtesy of Mark Elder and his Hallé forces, this time in the context...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

CESARINI Cantatas

According to the 17th-century intellectual Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, the composer Carlo Francesco Cesarini was the equal of Stradella, Bononcini and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone

Though recorded periodically and treated as a cultural touchstone in German-speaking countries, Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone still leaves seasoned English-speaking...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017

Voyages: Organ of the Paris Philharmonie

Enormously popular in the first half of the 20th century and largely forgotten and generally reviled during the second half,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017

Cyprien Katsaris: Elective Affinities

Die Wahlverwandt-schaften is claimed by the booklet writer to be ‘possibly the best novel’ by Goethe. ‘It refers to the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

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