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VERDI Requiem

As the Verdi bicentenary celebrations gently subside, this new Erato release offers the listener the best from a pair of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2014

Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper: Songs by Schumann & Reimann

Wolfgang Holzmair made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1989. He has recently retired from the recital platform, and this disc...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

POULENC The Complete Songs Vol 4

Malcolm Martineau has been a constant in this Signum series of Poulenc songs and in this fourth volume his piano-playing...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

SCHNITTKE Concerto for Choir. Three Sacred Songs. Voices of Nature

Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir was written in 1985, the year Mikhail Gorbachev took office and two new words transferred into...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014

MOZART Concert Arias

Rolando Villazón may not be everyone’s idea of a Mozartian stylist. Yet as his survey of this neglected area of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014

GESUALDO Responses for Holy Week

Given the impact of the first complete recording of Gesualdo’s Responsories by the Hilliard Ensemble for ECM over 20 years...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral and Organ Music

Considering that Duruflé’s choral and organ works span 40 years from the 1920s through to the 1960s, it’s remarkable how...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

John Eliot Gardiner’s earlier recording of the Missa solemnis was a landmark event. Reviewing the disc in these columns, John...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. Symphony No 2

The Habsburg Emperor Joseph II died on February 20, 1790. Amusingly but unfairly caricatured by Peter Shaffer in his play...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 88, 199 & 84

Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut draws on the parable of the Pharisee and the publican but ignores the smugness of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014

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