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HANDEL Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Dunedin Consort)

You certainly got your money’s worth, both in quantity and quality, when Handel was around. On St Cecilia’s Day, November...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018

GRAUPNER Duo-Kantaten

Poor Christoph Graupner. The general consensus about the composer (a pupil of Kuhnau’s and a contemporary of Telemann and Handel)...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

GETTY Beauty Come Dancing

Opera and song are at the heart of Gordon Getty’s work and spring as much from his love for poetry...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2018

FÉVIN Missa Ave Maria. Salve sancta parens

Antoine de Févin (c1470-1511/12) is not currently well known, despite his works having travelled widely in his own day and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2018

The Secret Fauré

‘Rare Fauré’ might be a better, if not entirely accurate title for this attractive disc, in which Ivor Bolton conducts...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR The Music Makers. The Spirit of England (Davis)

Both soloist and conductor have already given us notable versions of The Music Makers – for Naxos (12/06) and Teldec/Warner...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2018

DOWLAND First Book of Songes or Ayres (Grace Davidson)

‘Semper Dowland, semper dolens’, John Dowland famously punned, but the composer’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres couldn’t be further...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

BRIAN The Vision of Cleopatra

Havergal Brian’s cantata The Vision of Cleopatra (1907) is the most ambitious work of his earliest period, ie before the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

JS BACH Oboe Concertos & Cantatas

Xenia Löffler’s performances on a 2014 disc of assorted Venetian concertos (10/14) from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018

ANDERSON Heaven is Shy of Earth; The Comedy of Change

This excellent CD fills significant gaps in the Anderson discography. At the same time it reminds us of the huge...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2018

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