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De Pasión Mortal - Songs from Two Golden Ages

Reminiscent of the cross-cultural crossover projects of L’Arpeggiata and Hespèrion XXI, this imaginative, deliciously sombre recording brings together 17th-century English...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Héloïse Werner: close-ups. J STANLEY Cerulean Orbits

Contrasts and continuities combine to create some fascinating and revealing results on two recent releases of vocal and instrumental music...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

G WILLIAMS 'Songs - Y Deryn Pur; Lights Out; Cariad Cyntaf'

Grace Williams’s reputation has, for many years, been predicated on her abilities as an instrumental composer, notably the two works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024

S S WESLEY Sacred Choral Music

This significant and highly enjoyable release offers a generous cross-section of both well-known and hitherto neglected repertory by, arguably, the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2024

VECCHI Le veglie di Siena

Orazio Vecchi had two stints as maestro di cappella at the cathedral in his native Modena, although early in his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien

As Fabrice Fitch explained in his Gramophone Collection in the last issue, there is already an extensive discography for Heinrich...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2024

A SCARLATTI Prima d’esservi infedele: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violins

Alessandro Scarlatti composed more than 800 cantatas, so it is little wonder that these four for soprano voice, two violins...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

Go, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger Quilter (James Gilchrist)

‘The songs of Roger Quilter seem to have been with me all my life’, James Gilchrist tells us in a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024

BONONCINI 'How the Mighty are Fallen' - Choral Music

A few of Bononcini’s sacred works copied in English 18th-century manuscripts can be connected to their use in concerts by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

Mischa Levitzki: The Complete HMV Recordings

APR first issued this iconic collection in 1992 (APR7020, 6/92). It was a revelation for many pianophiles who had either...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024

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