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BEETHOVEN The Complete String Quartets, Vol 2

Not for the Belcea Quartet is Op 18 No 5 meant to echo the spirit of Mozart as it does...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2013

An Immortal Legacy

This compilation recreates one of The Sixteen’s concert programmes, focusing on English choral music from Tallis to Tippett (with a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013

Music from the Eton Choirbook

Paul Van Nevel has been recording early polyphony with the Huelgas Ensemble for almost 40 years, but has not previously...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2013

Choirbook for the Queen

This disc of 13 anthems from the Choirbook for the Queen includes all 11 of its special commissions, and suspends...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2013

WAGNER Wesendonck-Lieder

Thomas Dausgaard’s early-Romantic-era recordings, played in smaller-scale performances by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, have offered discreet transformations of well-loved works,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2013

STOPFORD Choral Music

Although the rich textures and adventurous harmonies of composers like Lauridsen and Whitacre may be fashionable, music of a more...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 08/2013

MAHLER Das klagende Lied BERG Lulu-Suite

Boulez’s recordings become more precious the less we hear from him. He still has so much to say about the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2013

MACMILLAN Tenebrae Responsories

The combination of Westminster Cathedral Choir and MacMillan is irresistible. We are drawn immediately into their complicity by the jaw-dropping...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2013

SCARLATTI Dixit Dominus HANDEL Dixit Dominus

There are four extant settings of Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti. Half are simple stile antico pieces but the Choir...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013

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

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