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Music for a While: Improvisations on Henry Purcell

Having applied Baroque instruments to 20th-century Latin standards in ‘Los pájaros perdidos’ (Virgin, 5/12), for her latest experiment Christina Pluhar...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

POULENC Stabat Mater

The comparative rarity here is the Sept Répons de Ténèbres that Poulenc wrote in 1961 to a commission from Leonard...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014

PÄRT Berlin Mass. Seven Magnificat Antiphons

While one might legitimately question the need for another anthology of choral music by Arvo Pärt, this recording creates the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014

ORFF Carmina Burana

Despite being regarded by some commentators as the work of an ‘odious opportunist’, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana remains one of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014

KARAINDROU Medea

Eleni Karaindrou (b1941) is best known for her cinema scores, especially to Theo Angelopoulos’s films (5/99, 12/04, 6/09). The 17...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

HERSANT Stabat Mater. Clair Obscure

Among the generation of French composers who emerged after the dissolution of the avant-garde, Philippe Hersant (b1948) occupies a distinctive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op 3/2. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Eternal source of light divine was written (but perhaps not performed) for the birthday of Queen Anne in 1713. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XVIII

This marks the last issue in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra’s traversal of the music of Dieterich Buxtehude, a landmark acknowledged...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2014

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu nostri

Buxtehude’s concise cantata-cycle Membra Jesu nostri is an exquisite contemplation of seven different parts of Christ’s crucified body. Daniel Hyde’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

Alastair Miles: Lieder by Wolf & Brahms

Alastair Miles’s gravely sonorous bass is finely attuned to Brahms’s and Wolf’s vocal swansongs, linked by their themes of human...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

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