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Ladies Only - Love and Lament (Schubert)

This is a disc I rather wish I weren’t reviewing. There’s a fine line between artlessness and blandness in Schubert,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017

MEYERBEER Songs Vol 2

Released some five years after the first volume, this second Naxos disc of Meyerbeer songs presents settings of poetry in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017

HANDEL Tu fedel? Tu costante? Italian cantatas

A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017

GESUALDO Madrigals

Along with the Fifth Book of Madrigals issued alongside it, Gesualdo’s Sixth Book charts the culmination of his stylistic development,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017

Christmas Cantatas

One of many useful ways in which the late Peter Williams (the final version of whose monumentum pro JSB was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017

DOVE For an Unknown Soldier

Jonathan Dove might be expected to come up with a pragmatic response in commemorating the First World War, and so...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2017

CHERUBINI; PLANTADE Requiems

Hervé Niquet brings together two posthumous tributes to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette for the first time in a recording made...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2017

FINZI; BAX; IRELAND Choral Music

The Anglican choral tradition is shaped and defined as much by its buildings as by its choirs. Whether it’s St...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017

JS BACH Cantatas BWV 12, 106, 150 &131

Expectations were understandably high at the prospect of Vox Luminis graduating into the sphere of the young Bach cutting his...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2017

CPE BACH Der Frühling

The ever-inquisitive Café Zimmermann present a cross-section of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s least-known vocal and instrumental chamber music that conveys...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2017

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