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CLÉRAMBAULT Miserere COUPERIN Leçons de Ténèbres

At their sublime best, Le Poème Harmonique’s recordings are so singular that comparisons with other performances of the same repertoire...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

TALLIS Mass for Four Voices. Ave, rosa sine spinis

This very enjoyable series continues its sequence of motets and hymns, with a Mass as the centerpiece – this time...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015

Alisa Weilerstein: Solo

It feels a little dangerous to say this, but the opening of Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Solo’ hits the listener between the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

Angel Blue: Joy Alone

A winner at Operalia in 2009, Angel Blue is one of the top young singers on the ‘to watch’ list....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta

Maybe, just maybe, Anna Netrebko’s advocacy of Tchaikovsky’s last opera – namely this recording (made live in Essen) and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2015

CORELLI La Follia

It’s rare to experience the level of artistic rapport heard on this recording from the Danish recorder player Michala Petri...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto

Two discs here, the first a Blu ray with visuals, the second a hybrid SACD. In terms of sound, the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015

BERIO Sinfonia. Calmo

From the last hurrah of Boccherini’s four simultaneous nocturnal parties disappearing round the street corner yet hanging in the night...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Vol 2

Monteverdi’s madrigals have been served so well and so richly that ensembles must be pretty sure of their ground before...

Reviewed in issue 01/2015

MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610

Having released on three separate discs Monteverdi’s late (1641) published collection of sacred music, Selva morale e spirituale (12/10, 8/12,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014

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