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Pärt Johannes-Passion

Viewed superficially, there would seem to be very little room in Part’s exceedingly long-breathed Passio for individualised interpretation. You open...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Bach Easter Oratorio; Ascension Oratorio

Bach created the Easter Oratorio for Easter Sunday 1725, although some of the music was shrewdly parodied from a secular...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2011

Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

Jansons's EMI Mussorgsky concert was recorded in the Oslo Konserthus, the same hall where Chandos recorded his highly successful set...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Glinka Songs

Most of the songs in this recital belong to the genre of domestic music-making, often at a high level of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1998

Brahms/Schumann Works for Clarinet

All music-lovers know well that inspiration for Brahms's two clarinet sonatas came from the playing of Richard Muhlfeld, principal clarinettist...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1993

Monteverdi Le Passioni dell'anima

Rinaldo Alessandrini has always taken risks, and mostly they have paid off. Here he shows characteristic courage in deciding to...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/2000

Parry/Stanford Choral Works

How well these two composers complement each other in this programme of some of their choicest word settings. Parry's richly...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Ricci (La) Prigione di Edimburgo

Originating in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian, this opera concentrates not on the novel’s central character of Jeanie Deans but...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2004

Clérambault Chants & Motets for the Royal House of Saint-Louis

This is a mainly successful attempt to present Clerambault's Livre d'Orgue (c1710) in an appropriate context, that is, placing the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1995

Chants from the Benevento Cathedral

This is a recording of exceptional interest. Beneventan chant represents an area of early liturgical music about which, until recently,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1994

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