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PETRIDIS Requiem For the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos. Symphony No 3. Concerto Grosso

This may sound impossibly recondite, but I have been waiting a decade for a recording of this work to appear....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2022

PATERSON Say It To The Still World

‘A piece for electric guitar and choir’ sounds a little like one of those random combinations one might pick out...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2022

MARCELLO 'Amanti - Cantatas for Bass' (Sergio Foresti)

You can always rely on the veteran Italian baritone Sergio Foresti for interesting Baroque repertoire. And following hot on the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2022

JOSQUIN 'The Josquin Songbook - Music For Two Voices and Vihuela'

This is decidedly the oddest contribution to the Josquin year. The three performers here are beyond praise: María Cristina Kiehr...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2022

HAYDN The Creation (Savall)

Haydn conceived The Creation on the grandest possible scale, as evidenced by the 200-odd performers in the 1799 public premiere....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022

DEBUSSY; HAHN 'French Vocal Music'

This appealing album of fin de siècle works – mostly for solo voice and chorus – by Claude Debussy and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022

CHILCOTT Circlesong

Circlesong is an extended cantata for upper voices, mixed choir, two pianos and percussion, and is a revision dating from...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2022

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 35 & 169 (Iestyn Davies)

The emotional core of this album is Dieterich Buxtehude’s Klag-Lied. It’s a sublime performance from Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, in...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022

ALBÉNIZ Complete Songs (Adriana Gonzalez)

Momentousness seems prevalent at every turn: the perceptive, passionate notes, the lavish, 112-page booklet and the general dignity of the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2022

Wilhelm Kempff: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927-1936)

The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

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