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HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Egarr. Mortensen)

‘In the Brockes Passion Handel comes nearest to challenging Bach, and retires discomfited’, was Winton Dean’s withering verdict in his...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019

Konstantin Krimmel: Saga

German ballads, with their supernatural 19th-century narratives and less-than-exalted reputation, might seem to be an odd starting point in the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2019

Routes du Cafe

If one searches for Zimmermannsche Kaffeehaus online, up comes its location in Katharinenstrasse, Leipzig, the map helpfully annotated with the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019

Jennifer Johnston: A Love Letter to Liverpool

There’s more to Liverpool’s musical identity than Lennon and McCartney. A few years ago the RLPO released a series of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019

Leningrad Choir Concertos

While not an exclusively Russian phenomenon, the choir concerto flourished there during the 18th and early 19th centuries – reaching...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019

Japan: Works for Choir

Each new album in this series has brought epiphanies. Juxtapositions of Verdi with Scelsi, Debussy with Aperghis and Barber with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

Free America: Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion

As the New Union that was America strove to establish itself towards the end of the 1700s, music had a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2019

Air Music: Tales of Flying Creatures and Heavenly Breezes

This third instalment in Capella de la Torre’s series of the four elements is every bit as fresh and thoughtful...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

Ed Lyon: 17th Century Playlist

It’s a lovely concept – an album of the 17th century’s greatest hits, where only the catchiest, most irrepressibly infectious...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2019

WEIR Airs from another Planet: Chamber music and songs

From the start of Nuits d’Afrique, the flute weaves its sensuous lines around the soprano voice and echoes of Ravel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2019

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