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HOLST Hymn of Jesus DELIUS Sea Drift
There can be few more raptly compassionate statements in all music than Delius’s 1903 04 Whitman setting Sea Drift, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
CHARPENTIER Motets and Sacred Music
French Baroque specialist Edward Higginbottom writes eloquently about Charpentier’s neglect in the shadow of more favoured contemporaries, and it seems...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
JS BACH St Matthew Passion
The appetite for evolving performance practices in Bach’s St Matthew Passion appears undiminished as we have gradually shifted, over the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
JS BACH Christmas Oratorio
Two new Christmas Oratorio recordings in time for Christmas, and both from forces that give regular concert presentations of the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2013
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4
The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev...
Reviewed in issue 11/2013
ARNOLD Concerto for 2 Violins JENKINS Sinfonietta
This recording offers an unusual variety of British works for string orchestra played by the Chamber Ensemble of London, directed...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2013
REINECKE; NIELSEN Flute Concertos
The adjective ‘great’ in the title of this disc perhaps needs some qualification in one or two cases but without...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013
TOMASI; PLANEL; JOLIVET Trumpet Concertos
French trumpet concerto literature was largely generated by a flamboyant generation of great indigenous soloists, led by the irrepressible Maurice...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
Birth of the Symphony: Handel to Haydn
From its origins in the operatic overture, the symphony evolved from an entertainment to be chattered or munched through to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013
ZANI Complete Cello Concertos
Andrea Zani (1696-1757) was active in his native northern Italy but his career included an extended period in Vienna in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce 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
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
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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