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BACH all'italiano

Perhaps the highest form of Baroque flattery was all-out copying, and with Bach all’italiano the young recorder player Simon Borutzki...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2016

Helper and Protector: Italian Maestri in Poland

By the fourth volume of a series delving into the forgotten repertoire of 16th-century Poland, you might expect The Sixteen...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2016

Chorus vel organa; Music from the Lost Palace of Westminster

There is much to be celebrated here as early music scholarship inspires joyful performances from the Choir of Gonville &...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2016

Bouillabaisse: French Cantatas & Chansons

There’s nothing icthyological, or even marine, about the contents, so the title ‘Bouillabaisse’ is a puzzle; the name of the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016

VIVALDI Laudate!

This marks the debut recording of the Tulipa Consort, founded by the experienced Dutch soprano Johanette Zomer, whose discography has...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

SCHÜTZ St John Passion

Along with most of his other narrative works, Schütz’s three Passion settings date from the last decade of his life....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

SCHUBERT Lieder

‘Slow and soft’ were dominant epithets in David Patrick Stearns’s review of Florian Boesch’s earlier Schubert recital (Hyperion, 3/14). In...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

MADIN Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV

‘Possibly of Irish origin’, says Grove, but the booklet-note states firmly that Henry Madin (1698-1748) was the son of a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016

MACHAUT A Burning Heart

In this third instalment of the series, The Orlando Consort present a kind of minimalist Machaut. Most of the songs...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

The Love Songs of Jehan de Lescurel

Jehan de Lescurel’s known songs are all in a single manuscript from the second decade of the 14th century, and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2016

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