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BEETHOVEN (Der) glorreiche Augenblick. Choral Fantasia

It wasn’t quite Der glorreiche Augenblick. The Congress of Vienna in September 1814 was dampened by Napoleon (who had also...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012

BARBER Mélodies Passagères

The 1954 recording of Barber’s Hermit Songs with Leontyne Price and the composer is a revelation. He plays the piano...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 09/2012

BACH Jesu Meine Freude

This luxuriantly packaged first volume of a new series, ‘Bach Contextual’, appears as something of a hybrid: a CD with...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2012

BACH St John Passion

Sigiswald Kuijken’s thoughtful and measured St John presents quite a contrast to two recent readings, from the comparatively uneventful Nico...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue:

ARLEN Lieder

Composers from the between-the-wars lost generation keep coming to the surface and, just because their achievements are modest compared to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012

ALLEGRI Missa In lectulo meo. Miserere. Missa Christus resurgens

One wonders how Gregorio Allegri would have reacted to his posthumous fame. Past the initial amazement at being remembered at...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012

1612 - Italian Vespers

This is a liturgical re-creation of Second Vespers of the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary as...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012

Thomas Dausgaard conducts Brahms, Dvorak, Nielsen, Sibelius

Flying down from the gods to the stage in Copenhagen’s handsome Concert Hall is akin to a Harry Potter experience....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2012

WEINBERG Symphony No 20. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

Russian composers, Alfred Schnittke being the obvious exception, have largely been immune from the so-called ‘Curse of the Ninth’. Shostakovich...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2012

VIVALDI Violin Concertos Volume 4 (L’imperatore)

The booklet-note to this fourth volume of Vivaldi violin concertos from Naïve implies (unintentionally, I think) that all the works...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2012

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