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Eros & Subtilitas: Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo

Spanish early music ensemble Tasto Solo made ripples with their first three recordings – a diverse triptych starting with 15th-century...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023

A Day with Suzanne. A Tribute to Leonard Cohen

It had never occurred to me before to draw a Venn diagram showing the intersecting circles of lovers of the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023

Kitty Whately: Befreit - A Soul Surrendered

This album might borrow its title from one of Richard Strauss’s best-known songs and culminate in a moving performance of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023

Tim Mead: Sacroprofano

Hard on the heels of Le Poème Harmonique’s programme of Vivaldi and others (Alpha, 11/22) comes this all Vivaldi album...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023

Matthias Goerne: Schubert Revisited

As Schubert’s posthumous fame grew, his most popular songs – which usually meant those published in his lifetime – received...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023

RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Fox. O'Leary)

Recordings of Rachmaninov’s Vigil service (‘Vespers’) used to be rare jewels in the choral universe, the domain, with some honourable...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023

MOZART Coronation Mass (Arman)

The most recent foray into Mozart’s Salzburg church music pairs his most popular Mass from the period with the first...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Autograph piano version)

Mahler’s own piano version of his Das Lied von der Erde has struggled to establish itself in the repertory since...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023

MACHAUT Songs from Remede de Fortune

In January, reviewing Blue Heron’s recording of the Remede de Fortune, I mentioned that one of the problems was the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2023

FOX Trostlieder

A unifying theme on Exaudi’s third album of Christopher Fox’s vocal music is the devastation of armed conflict. Commissioned to...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023

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