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WEIR Choral Music

For an aural snapshot of the distinctive Weir style I recommend track 11, a less-than-four-minute setting of a sonnet by...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2011

POULENC Mass in G. Figure humaine. Un soir de neige. Sept chansons

Schoenberg wasn’t wrong when he said (in 1925) that modern composers could only write introductions, ‘able only to place one...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2011

NONO Risonanze erranti. Post-praeludium per Donau

Risonanze erranti a Massimo Cacciari, premiered in 1986, spins out of the compositional multiverse Luigi Nono created for Prometeo, his...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2011

DESPREZ Missa De beata virgine. Missa Ave maris stella

This is a neatly selected group of pieces. Josquin’s Missa de Beata Virgine was by far his most successful work,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2011

HERRMANN Moby Dick

As his centenary year draws to a close it is good to be reminded of the strength and quality of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2011

HANDEL 'Streams of Pleasure'

The omens looked good. An unclichéd selection of arias and duets from Handel’s late oratorios, two fine, distinctive singers well...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2011

CICONIA 'Opera Omnia - Complete Works'

Ciconia has done very well in the recording studios and is easily the most-recorded composer active in the years around...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2011

JS BACH Trauer-Music: Music to Mourn Prince Leopold

An enterprising reconstruction of a Bachian musical funeral presents a welcome return for Andrew Parrott and his pioneering Taverner Consort...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2011

JS BACH Cantatas, Vol 49

A combination of lost works and Bach’s gradual retreat from his breathtakingly prolific cantata production in the very early Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2011

JC BACH Welt, gute Nacht

Johann Christoph Bach, the cousin of Johann Sebastian’s father, Ambrosius, has the reputation of being a musician’s composer, something of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2011

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