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IVES A Songbook

In a just world, credit owed where credit’s due, you’d be filing this disc under ‘Sebastian Gottschick/Charles Ives – A...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013

HOLTEN Venus' Wheel: Works for Choir

Probably best known in Britain for his 15 year tenure as principal guest conductor of the BBC Singers and for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2013

HANDEL Dixit Dominus, HWV232 VIVALDI Dixit Dominus, RV807. In furore, RV626a

This is, incredibly, the sixth commercial recording of Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, RV807, in less than a decade since the Dresden...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2013

GLASS The Passion of Ramakrishna

Considering The Passion of Ramakrishna is concerned with Indian mysticism – in particular the life, death and transfiguration of Sri...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013

COUPERIN Trois Leçons de Ténèbres

Though best known as a composer for the harpsichord, François Couperin also composed motets, a Magnificat and at least three...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2013

BRITTEN Sacred Choral Music

This two-CD set of Britten from the Choir of New College, Oxford, collects together ‘all the music…which might reasonably be...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2013

JS BACH St John Passion

After the profoundly impressive recent liturgico-contextual vision for the St John Passion from the Dunedin Consort and John Butt, two...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2013

Spheres

Daniel Hope’s recording of Max Richter’s The Four Seasons rehash did not fare too well in the pages of this...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2013

Maestro or Mephisto: The Real George Solti

This likeable documentary was first broadcast in the UK last November, following the centenary of Solti’s birth. The feature shows...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

Russian Trumpet Concertos

Connoisseurs of the trumpet repertoire, please take note. You may already have more versions than you want of the ubiquitous...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2013

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