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TABAKOVA Kynance Cove. On the South Downs

Released in conjunction with BBC Radio 3, this generously filled disc presents a broad and attractive showcase of works by...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2019

Myrtle & Rose

To hear songs by Schumann – either Schumann – with a fortepiano is perhaps a rarer occurrence than one would...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2019

MYSLIVEČEK Adamo ed Eve

An almost exact contemporary of Haydn, the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček was a significant figure in the development of the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

HONEGGER Jeanne d'Arcau Bûcher (Denève)

Honegger’s masterpiece has never been short of recordings or fully committed interpreters, and it deserves both, even if English listeners...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

Songs & Sonnets - Songs In English and German from the Reign of Queen Victoria

‘I found I could get along better with the German than the English words’, confided Hubert Parry in a diary...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019

HANDEL Cantate 03

Contrasto Armonico’s slow-burning Handel cantatas project explores often-performed Italian cantate con stromenti in context alongside neglected chamber cantatas for only...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019

GRANDI Motets

It is said that when Alessandro Grandi left Venice (where he was born and had been trained and worked all...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2019

CASKEN The Dream of the Rood

He might not enjoy the highest profile but John Casken (70 earlier this year) has amassed a substantial and varied...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 8 (Harriet Burns)

At heart, if not always in practice, a man of the people, Brahms engaged deeply with folk song throughout his...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem (Harding)

On their own – rather than singing in consort with other choruses as they do on several previous recordings –...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

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