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Conversazioni II: Duelling Cantatas

Sounds Baroque follow their debut album (10/11) with another engaging snapshot of the Arcadian Academy’s Sunday afternoon ‘conversations’, magnets for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

Arise, my muse

It says a lot about Iestyn Davies’s musical instincts that his second Wigmore Hall Live disc is less a solo...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

TULVE Arboles Lloran Por Lluvia

Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

TAVENER Ikon of Light

Sometime back in the mid-1980s I was sent a review copy of the original LP recording on which all these...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014

TALLIS Lamentations of Jeremiah

The quiet contemplation of Compline – the final service of the monastic day – provides the framework for this latest...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

STEFFANI Lagrime Dolorose

The musical reputation of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is spreading gradually beyond the awareness of a few scholarly cognoscenti but his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Winterreise

For sheer vocal splendour, Jonas Kaufmann is unrivalled in Winterreise since Jon Vickers, whose controversial 1983 recording is revelatory or...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Wanderers Nachtlied

Schubert is once reported to have exclaimed to a friend, ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ His alleged...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

Music for a While: Improvisations on Henry Purcell

Having applied Baroque instruments to 20th-century Latin standards in ‘Los pájaros perdidos’ (Virgin, 5/12), for her latest experiment Christina Pluhar...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

POULENC Stabat Mater

The comparative rarity here is the Sept Répons de Ténèbres that Poulenc wrote in 1961 to a commission from Leonard...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014

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