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Invitation au voyage

So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Flowers of the Field

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015

Thomas Michael Allen: Far Away

Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Xavier Sabata: I Dilettanti

This has a genuinely interesting concept: music for alto voice and basso continuo by six accomplished ‘dilettante’ composers, some of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

PIZZETTI Requiem ALLEGRI; MACMILLAN Miserere

The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

VERDI Requiem

Brahms believed that Hans von Bülow ‘disgraced himself for all time’ by lampooning this work as ‘opera in church clothing’....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015

PRZYBYLSKI Passio for 12 Voices

Born in Poland in 1984, Dariusz Przybylski studied in Germany with York Höller and Wolfgang Rihm; this recording was made...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2015

ORFF Carmina Burana

It was inevitable that a ripe choral warhorse such as Carmina Burana should now be worthy of a reassessment in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

C MATTHEWS Aftertones. No Man's Land

The Hallé’s association with Colin Matthews continues. Aftertones (2000) was a commission from the Huddersfield Choral Society, these ‘Three Landscapes...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

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