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CORIGLIANO The Ghosts of Versailles. HIGDON Cold Mountain

I was in the audience the night John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2016

Folkslied

In the 1770s the gloomy, mist-shrouded musings of the Gaelic bard ‘Ossian’ – later revealed as the century’s greatest literary...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2016

Bien que l’amour...

Before and after the turn of the 17th century, hundreds of collections of Airs sérieux et à boire were published...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016

ZELENKA Missa Divi Xaverii

Václav Luks’s reconstruction of Zelenka’s Missa Divi Xaverii, edited painstakingly from the damaged autograph manuscript, has just been published by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2016

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Right from the start, this Schwanengesang has two major virtues that should come as no surprise to anyone aware of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016

Purcell Songs Realised by Britten

Is this set for lovers of Purcell or Britten? Or perhaps both? Now that we have ample opportunity to hear...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2016

Du MONT O Mysterium: Motets & Elévations

Henri Du Mont was a key figure at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Flanders in 1610, he moved...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016

Ton Koopman at the Zacharias Hildebrandt Organ

Few organists specialising in the great oeuvres of 17th- and 18th-century North Europe find such satisfying complicity between the instrument,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2016

TELEMANN 12 Fantaisies pour la basse de violle

Last October it was announced that a copy of Telemann’s 12 fantasias for solo viola da gamba, known to have...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2016

Simon Trpčeski plays Brahms, Ravel & Poulenc

With few exceptions, Poulenc’s piano music is so seldom programmed that hearing a representative selection almost seems a discovery. The...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016

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