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HEGGIE & SCHEER Out of Darkness

Any artistic endeavour related to the Holocaust is held to a different standard: the gulf between the artist’s intentions and...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2014

FAURÉ Requiem. Cantique de Jean Racine. Messe basse

King’s College Choir has a distinguished recording history of Fauré’s evergreen Requiem, starting with David Willcocks’s much-loved 1967 LP. This...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2014

DOVE All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song Cycles

If you want to find out what has happened to English song since Britten, this is as good a place...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

Charpentier at the Royal Chapel in Versailles

A treasure map is needed to find one’s way through this release. The CDs and DVD, exquisitely encased in a...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

BUXTEHUDE Vocal Works Vol 9

The 19th volume in Ton Koopman’s ambitious project to record Buxtehude’s complete works is devoted to another cross-section of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone, Op 33

The Magelone Romances – an anthology rather than a true cycle – have never been a Brahmsian favourite. Ludwig Tieck’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2014

Touching the Sound: The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii

I welcomed Peter Rosen’s film of Nobuyuki Tsujii’s Carnegie Hall debut in the November 2012 issue. Here Rosen tells the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

Tickle the Minikin: 17th-century lyra viol music

‘Tickle the minikin’ is 16th-century slang for playing the highest string of a viol, like a pub pianist ‘tinkles the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

Jos Zwaanenburg: Grist

Jos Zwaanenburg is a Dutch flautist with a taste for electronics, improvisation and chance procedures, and each of the composers...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014

Luiza Borac: Chants Nostalgiques

Not so much nostalgique as excentrique. Luiza Borac, whose disc of music by her fellow countryman Dinu Lipatti I welcomed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

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