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HØYBYE The Magic Paint Brush

John Høybye (b1939) is one of those composers one hears about but rarely hears, so this spotlight on his work...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue:

HOLST The Coming of Christ, H170

The real rarity here is The Coming of Christ. This is a play by John Masefield, commissioned by George Bell,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012

M HEAD Songs

Really, the enterprise of Hyperion knows no bounds. Here is a disc devoted to songs by Michael Head, who is...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012

HAYDN The Creation

Filmed in the evocative setting of the Gothic Grote Kerk in Naarden, with its magnificent painted wooden vaults, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2012

Delius Complete Songbook Vol 1

The remarkable thing about this first volume of the collected Delius songs, quite apart from the quality of Mark Stone’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2012

DEBUSSY Songs

Natalie Dessay returns to recording French mélodies for the first time since she made a few cameo appearances on the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012

BRAHMS Music for Chorus and Orchestra

Antoni Wit is proving to be one of Naxos’s greatest assets, a conductor of strong personality who puts musical values...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2012

Marie-Nicole Lemieux sings Mahler, Berlioz & Wagner

What a curious first impression Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s Berlioz/Wagner/Mahler recital makes in the wake of her fine Schumann disc (Naïve, 4/10)...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012

JS BACH St John Passion

Both of these new recordings adopt the one-voice-per-part method (‘OVPP’), which means concertino solo singers perform throughout but are reinforced...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2012

Modern TImes

Christian Immler has long championed the songs of so-called entartete (‘degenerate’) composers forced into exile by the Nazis. He and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2012

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