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Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
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MARTIN Jubilate Deo
The music of Matthew Martin (b1976) is haunted by the spirits of British composers who died while he was in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015
MARENZIO Quinto libro di madrigali
Marenzio’s Quinto libro di madrigali a sei voci (1591) was dedicated to his Roman patron Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
LEIGHTON Missa Brevis. Cucifixus pro nobis
Kenneth Leighton’s remarkably consistent musical style means that his characteristic traits, such as extensive use of chromaticism and syncopation, plus...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015
GRAUPNER Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust
Telemann claimed that while a law student he composed a psalm for St Thomas’s every fortnight. His earliest extant sacred...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
LA COUR Works for Choir and Organ
Listening to this disc gives you the impression that Niels la Cour is a composer who writes with an earnest...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015
BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte MOZART Masonic Cantata
An English Peter Schreier, albeit with a sweeter timbre, Mark Padmore combines an acute intelligence with an unvarnished directness in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015
Live from the Philharmonie
The Philharmonie de Paris, Western Europe’s newest concert hall, is about as far from the centre of France’s capital as...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05
MARTINŮ; STRAVINSKY; SHOSTAKOVICH; POULENC Music for Two Pianos
The Serbian-born sisters Lidija and Sanja Bizjak have devised a clever programme, pairing two concertos for two pianos and orchestra...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2015
WEINBERG Violin Concerto. Symphony No 4
Back in the mid-1970s, HMV included these two works among the carefully selected Soviet repertoire they issued on licence from...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2015
WALTON Symphony No 2. Cello Concerto
Edward Gardner directs a superbly perceptive account of Walton’s Second Symphony, exhilarating in its purposeful thrust yet never flinching from...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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