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FAURÉ Requiem

The usual suspects to pair with Fauré’s Requiem – Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe Basse – get more exposure...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2013

ELGAR Music in Wartime

Here’s a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War, three of which...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2013

BONONCINI Stabat Mater & Messa

Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) was the younger brother of the celebrated opera composer Giovanni. Both studied in Bologna, relocated to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

A far cry from the sombre and disillusioned collaborations between the Thomaners and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the post-war years,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013

Tango Rhapsody

Piazzolla’s music, and tango nuevo itself, is a bit like marmite. I will confess to being a lover – in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013

Solti: Journey of a Lifetime

Georg Wübbolt’s film celebrates the 100th anniversary of Solti’s birth on October 21, 1912. After the selection of pithy encomiums...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013

British Clarinet Concertos

Arguably one of the best-conceived Romantic clarinet concertos, Stanford’s Clarinet Concerto of 1902 has now had a fair number of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2013

Martha Argerich: Lugano Concertos

The four CDs come in a slip-case the size and thickness of the average paperback measuring about 8"x5" in old...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013

WEBER Symphonies Nos 1 and 2. Bassoon Concerto

Weber’s only symphonies were knocked off at great speed – with quasi-Mozartian fluency of melody, orchestration and pulse (and a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013

VILLA-LOBOS Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Just what the world needs, another cycle of Villa-Lobos symphonies? Well, one thing becomes clear from the get-go – Carl...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013

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