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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Here is a legendary historical document to follow those 2013 War Requiem recordings reviewed above.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

BRITTEN War Requiem

After 12 months of extraordinary activity, the Britten centenary comes to a fitting close on disc with these two major...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013

BERLIOZ L’enfance du Christ

How remarkable it is that this perfectly formed 90 minute oratorio should have grown from such an unassuming seed –...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2013

JS BACH Mass in B minor

Having made several excellent recordings of sacred music for the Dresden Hofkapelle by Zelenka, it is only natural that the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2013

JS BACH Lutheran Masses

Like the Christmas Oratorio, Bach’s four settings of the Kyrie and Gloria for the Lutheran liturgy are largely ‘parodied’ from...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2013

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 30, 69 and 191

While John Eliot Gardiner performed his near-complete Bach sacred cantata ‘pilgrimage’ in the course of the great millennial year in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013

BEETHOVEN The Symphonies and Reflections

This is an exceptional realisation of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, one of those rare occasions when one is left with a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2013

BIBER; FUX; SCHMELZER Exotic Music for Violin by Biber

‘Austrian baroque music, spiced with oriental exoticness, virtuosity, scordatura, programmatic approaches, dulcimer & percussion, played on violins by Jacobus Stainer.’...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2013

WIDOR Symphony No 2. Cello Concerto

Hats off to the RSNO and Martin Yates for resurrecting these three substantial orchestral works by Charles-Marie Widor, the composer...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013

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