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MAHLER Orchestral Songs

With Thomas Quasthoff retired, many would nominate Christian Gerhaher as today’s pre-eminent German Lieder baritone (the more controversial Goerne is...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

LARCHER What Becomes. A Padmore Cycle

Coming to this disc as a Mark Padmore admirer – rather than as someone who has followed the recorded trajectory...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

GESUALDO Reponsories 1611

Gesualdo’s Responsories for Holy Week need no introduction by now; not so La Compagnia del Madrigale, a recently formed ensemble,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014

GEE Mouthpieces

Music that uses the mouth as an instrument has evolved apace over the past century and Erin Gee clearly has...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014

FERRANDINI Cantatas

Until recently the Munich-based Venetian composer Giovanni Ferrandini (1709 91) has probably been known to only a few attentive observers...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

FAURÉ Mélodies. La Bonne Chanson RAVEL Trois Poèmes

These two artist-produced French song recitals illustrate the pluses and minuses of artistic control. Now in her mid 60s, Barbara...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

DYRUD Out of Darkness

Håkon Gullvåg’s startlingly macabre cover work (The Resurrection) provides a powerful indication that the music will be innovative and strong,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2014

CALDARA Requiem

A hitherto little-known manuscript now in the Czech National Library contains a Missa defunctorum by Caldara that comprises the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 72, 81, 155 & 156

Except for the exquisite Sinfonia that opens No 156, none of these Epiphany cantatas is familiar fare. But with Bach...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Cantatas BWV Nos 70; 9; 182

For this latest instalment in his personal selection of Bach cantatas – one for each Sunday and liturgical feast –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

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