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HANDEL Ero e Leandro. Water Music Suite No 1

It may not look like it at first but there are three completely different orchestras on this disc. The European...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

If you exclude the credits and the pauses between movements, this performance lasts just short of 75 minutes, about par...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013

JS BACH Cantatas Vol 53

There is something of a ‘genre within a genre’ when one reaches late Bach cantatas – especially those works which...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2013

POULENC; RAVEL Piano Concertos

What an enticing programme this is. I’ve long had a serious soft spot for Debussy’s youthful Fantaisie, a work in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013

ROUSE; IBERT Flute Concertos

Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto was composed as a direct response to the killing of James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013

WIDMANN Violin Concerto. Antiphon

Jörg Widmann is 40 this year and well placed to assume the late Hans Werner Henze’s pivotal role in the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2013

VILLA-LOBOS Guitar Concerto. 5 Preludes for guitar

Villa-Lobos’s Five Preludes (1940) are, alongside the Twelve Studies (1924 29; not included on this new disc), the cornerstones of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013

STRAVINSKY Complete music for piano & orchestra

Stravinsky once described the piano as the ‘fulcrum’ of his compositional activity, presumably meaning that he used it to lever...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2013

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune, Boléro and The Rite of Spring tiptoe into existence by stealth, solo woodwinds making an...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2013

STRAUSS Josephslegende Op 63

Strauss’s Josephslegende is a bit of a slog. An hour-long ballet, written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in Paris...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013

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