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SPOHR The Fall of Babylon

Some works don’t define their era but merely recall it. So listeners would have to be rather fascinated by the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Though Schubert’s great song-cycle has had its day with period instruments, this recording has some differences that allow it to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

PERGAMENT The Jewish Song

Moses Pergament (1893-1977) has been described as ‘one of the best-kept secrets of Swedish music’, although he was born in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

PEREZ Mattutino de’ morti

The Neapolitan composer Davide Perez (1711 78) settled in Lisbon and his mastery earned him respect in London: he became...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

PENDERECKI Missa brevis. Psalms of David

By his own admission, the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has ‘spent decades searching for and discovering new sounds’. Nowhere are...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2014

PALESTRINA Missa Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat

The Sixteen’s Palestrina series marches on, following a formula now firmly established in earlier instalments: a Mass, a hymn, a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN The Creation

For obvious commercial...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014

HANDEL Jeptha

Jephtha (1752) dramatises the folly, pride and penitence of the Hebrew general who rashly vows to Jehovah that if his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi DELBOS L'Âme en Bourgeon

Messiaen’s song-cycle Poèmes pour Mi and his first wife Claire Delbos’s L’âme en bourgeon were premiered in the same Paris...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2014

BERLIOZ La Captive

The trend towards casting Berlioz with lighter voices, often with singers more seasoned in chronologically earlier repertoire, takes a fruitful...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

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