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POULENC Gloria. Litanies à la Vierge noire. Stabat Mater

The atmosphere of perfumed ritual in Poulenc’s Gloria finds a ready response in this performance by Parisian forces under Paavo...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013

MOZART Betulia Liberata

Michi Gaigg’s exploration of the azione sacra (sacred drama) Betulia liberata is the latest addition to what is turning out...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2013

MAILLARD Missa Je suis déshéritée

The Marian Consort may be the most recent of the various vocal groups to emerge from the college choirs of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2013

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde

Female British singers seem to have a special relationship with Mahler’s song-symphony and two of today’s finest mezzos are represented...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013

LASSUS Lagrime di san Pietro

Recordings of Lassus’s late masterpiece have appeared at reasonably regular intervals since the 400th anniversary of his death in 1994....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2013

JANÁČEK Brumes d'Enfance / Mists of Childhood

This is an attractive collection of some of Janáček’s most touching and entertaining music. The 19 numbers that make up...

Reviewed in issue 12/2013

HOLST First Choral Symphony. The Mystic Trumpeter

While this recording embodies a special poignancy – it was after the first take of the First Choral Symphony in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2013

HANDEL Belshazzar

No single authentic version of Belshazzar (1745) offers an ideal text, so William Christie collates what he thinks is ‘the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2013

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius. Symphony No 1

On this evidence, Edo de Waart is clearly an Elgar conductor of no mean instinct. Both performances benefit from his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013

BRITTEN War Requiem

Here is a legendary historical document to follow those 2013 War Requiem recordings reviewed above. A mythology has grown up...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013

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