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SCHUMANN Liederkreis, Op 39. Op 24

Now at the peak of his recording career, Gerald Finley is unsystematically jumping from Ives to Ravel to Schumann, no...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013

Hommage to Johannes Ockeghem

In a recent online round-up, I remarked that Obrecht’s discography is more remarkable for quantity than consistency, especially in the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013

NØRGÅRD Libra. Rêves en pleine lumière. Kredsløb (Cycle)

Listening to Per Nørgård’s Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013

IRELAND Church Music

Ireland’s church music has a modest restraint, compared with the output of Bairstow, Howells and Parry. But his significant contribution...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2013

My Beloved Spake: Anthems by Purcell & Humfrey

It is nice these days to have a chance to hear some of Purcell’s church anthems sung by a choir...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

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

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