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HAYDN The Creation

Astonishingly, Haitink waited until he was 82 to conduct The Creation for the first time. Yet his profound sympathy for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2014

GESUALDO Sacrarum Cantionum

Those expecting the composer’s trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014

FRANDSEN Requiem

Complete settings of the Requiem Mass by Scandinavian composers are few and far between. Rarer still are those by Danes....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2014

ELGAR Sea Pictures. Dream of Gerontius

This is unquestionably the strongest Gerontius to have come my way since Sir Mark Elder’s Gramophone Award-winning Hallé account (1/09)....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

DEBUSSY Songs Vol 3

Having already earned plaudits for his first two volumes of Debussy songs (5/03, 6/12), Malcolm Martineau here partners the soprano...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

BORG 15 Songs. Landscape

Matti Borg (b1956) has enjoyed a triple career as an operatic baritone, composer and teacher. He graduated from Ib Nørholm’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH St John Passion

The idea of faith merits not a single mention in almost an an hour of spoken material ancillary to this...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014

Alison Balsom: Paris

Studying in Paris helped to define Alison Balsom’s belief of what a virtuoso trumpet soloist might achieve in the footsteps...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

Albrecht Mayer: Lost and Found

If Mozart and Haydn have long been established as the dominant Viennese figures of the 1780s, it is always fascinating...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

CHOPIN; TCHIAKOVSKY; PROKOFIEV; LISZT Piano Concertos

These recordings of live broadcasts dating from 1968 79 tell us in no uncertain terms of Nelson Freire’s immaculate overall...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

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