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HAYDN Missa Cellensis (Doyle)

As so often with early(ish) Haydn, we can only speculate on the origins of this expansive ‘cantata Mass’, composed in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2020

HANDEL Messiah (Savall)

Jordi Savall’s claim that his performance of Messiah is based on Handel’s autograph score in the British Library is puzzling...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2020

HAHN Complete Songs (Tassis Christoyannis)

Reynaldo Hahn’s reputation rests primarily on his songs, so it comes as something of a shock to realise how few...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2020

EISLER Lieder, Vol 4 (Holger Falk)

The first three volumes of Holger Falk’s Eisler series with Steffen Schleiermacher (8/17, 1/18, A/18) ranged from 1929 to 1962,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020

COLONNA O Splendida Dies

Giovanni Battista Colonna (1637 95) trained in Rome with Carissimi and Benevoli before returning home to Bologna, eventually becoming the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2020

BUSSEY In no strange land

Founded in 2016 by Neil Ferris and Michael Higgins, the chamber choir Sonoro already have three recordings under their belt,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2020

BRUCKNER Requiem (Borowicz)

This collection of funeral music by Bruckner, mostly choral works composed in his twenties, provides a fascinating contrast with the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2020

JS BACH Magnificat (Tournet)

Inspired by the splendour of the Royal Chapel at Versailles, the Château Spectacles series of concerts and recordings adds the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020

JS BACH St John Passion (Herreweghe)

Over the years Philippe Herreweghe has moved freely between the first and second of Bach’s St John Passion scores, composed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (Fazil Say)

In the booklet notes accompanying Fazıl Say’s Beethoven sonata cycle, the pianist writes: ‘As I work I make annotations above...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

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