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TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
STEFFANI Stabat Mater, Dances & Overtures
The proclamation that Cecilia Bartoli ‘continues her Mission to discover the music of Agostino Steffani’ might lead an unsuspecting public...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
SCHUMANN Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Requiem
With this pairing, Christoph Spering continues his exploration of some of the byways of the choral and vocal repertoire. Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
PALESTRINA Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Harry Christophers’s Palestrina series continues with a Mass based on one of his own motets, O magnum mysterium (a text...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
MOZART Requiem
‘The Lucerne Festival 2012 has begun with a wonder,’ whispered Die Zeit, as quoted on the packaging for Abbado’s DVD...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
MACHAUT Songs from Le Voir Dit
It feels like the Seventies again. Hyperion has apparently committed itself to a complete set of Machaut’s music. Not just...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
HAYDN Mass No 11, 'Nelson Mass'. Symphony No 102
The Nelson Mass is perhaps Haydn’s most popular church work. This is due in large part to the shocked awe...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
R HANSON Thanksgiving Music
Born in Birmingham in 1948, the composer and conductor Robert Hanson held directorial posts at both Dartington College of Arts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
EISLER Ernste Gesänge. Piano sonata Op 1
It is difficult to imagine a cause less fashionable than that of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), the Schoenberg pupil who struggled...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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