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A Spanish Nativity

Released in time for Christmas, Stile Antico’s latest offering explores the Spanish Golden Age from Morales to Victoria. The centrepiece...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019

Baroque Gender Stories (Vivica Genaux; Lawrence Zazzo)

Early 18th-century Italian opera companies often cast female voices in male roles, and sometimes castratos took female roles according to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019

WOHLHAUSER L’amour est un duperie – l’amour n’est pas une symbiose

His may be an unfamiliar name but the Swiss composer René Wohlhauser (b1954) has gained a wide reputation for his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Song of Love; Time and Space

Early in his career Ralph Vaughan Williams was much taken with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 1881 collection of 100 sonnets, The...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2019

STROZZI "Virtuosa of Venice" (Fieri Consort)

Barbara Strozzi (1619 77) published eight collections of chamber vocal music – almost all secular and most of them extant...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019

SCHÜTZ The Christmas Story

This attractive all-Schütz programme places his Christmas Story alongside other seasonal German- and Latin-texted works, culminating in the very Venetian-sounding...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019

SCHUMANN Myrthen (Christian Gerhaher)

For the second volume of their Schumann project, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber turn to Myrthen, the wonderful wedding present...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019

de RORE I madrigali a cinque voci

A musical landmark it undoubtedly is, but few would claim that Cipriano de Rore’s first book of madrigals constitutes easy...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019

PALESTRINA Lamentations (Cinquecento)

Palestrina’s second book of Lamentations is surprisingly passionate, and this performance in particular is a gentle reminder that the spacious,...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2019

KURTAG The Edge of Silence; Scenes

Coincidences like this are rare indeed at the high modernist end of the music spectrum. Two new CDs of Kurtág’s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2019

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