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CAPUANA; RUBINO Requiems

Polyphonic Requiems composed and published in Italy in the 17th century number in the hundreds, so it’s small wonder that...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015

ARNESEN Magnificat KERNIS Musica Celestis

Although this disc was recorded in the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world (in Trondheim), there is nothing chilly about...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015

COPLAND Symphony No 3

Piston’s Suite from his ballet The Incredible Flutist has been his best-known work but it owes more to 19th-century ballet...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015

DAN The Silk Road BUSONI Turnadot Suite

The booklet essay outlines a programme to each work which might not be readily appreciable from the performances. The meeting...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015

Martin Fröst: Nordic Concertos

Fröst is the star of the show here. Not that the four accompanying orchestras and conductors are anything but exemplary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

COPLAND Lincoln Portrait LANG mountain MUHLY Pleasure Ground

These are all live recordings, followed by applause, forming the first CD by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Louis Langrée....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015

Alfredo Bernardini: Zefiro

Zefiro present oboe concertos by different composers all associated to varying degrees with Venice. The quality of Zefiro’s musicianship and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

Comédie et Tragédie, Vol 1

The enterprising Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra known as Tempesta di Mare, founded in 2002, was the brainchild of the American lutenist...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem. Symphony No 4

Captured with thrilling fidelity by the microphones, Spano’s reading of the 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem impresses by dint of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

TORROBA Guitar Concertos

The Spanish composer, conductor and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) was hugely prolific throughout his long life, writing in a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2015

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