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YOUNG Beowulf

Is there a better tale to capture the imagination of a young child than that of Beowulf? It’s the original...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW20

ROSNER Requiem

Critics’ Choice Alert! The Requiem by Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) is magnificent. Completed in 1973, it originated from an abortive plan...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

MÄNTYJÄRVI Choral Music

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi is a polymath: he is a singer, conductor and translator, but it is for his work as a...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20

KOMITAS Divine Liturgy (Klava)

The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas (1869-1935), priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. The accuracy of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20

JOMMELLI Requiem (Prandi)

It was as recently as July that I welcomed a high-quality recording of Jommelli’s Requiem that at last superseded a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

HEGGIE Unexpected Shadows

Jamie Barton’s all-embracing talent – her powerful presence, her spectacular vocal equipment – has a whole lot of Heggie to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20

BRUCKNER Mass in E minor STRAVINSKY Mass (Leenaars)

It’s not often that works by Bruckner and Stravinsky are paired together, but the two Masses on this release make...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20

JS BACH Motets (Pichon)

A whole generation has elapsed since René Jacobs’s much-admired disc of Bach motets (Harmonia Mundi, 7/97), and even its high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

JS BACH St John Passion (Suzuki)

When Bach Collegium Japan performed the St John Passion in London early on in their spring 2020 European tour –...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW20

Lament: Works by Hagen, Asheim and Nordheim

Where might the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir head after Berio’s Coro, pondered Gramophone’s review of the ensemble’s last recording (6/20). The...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW20

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