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MACMILLAN One Equal Music

Large-scale choral works by James MacMillan, such as his early Seven Last Words from the Cross or the more recent...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019

LANDINI L’Occhio del Cor

With over 20 CDs of medieval music to their name, the (Italian) group La Reverdie are certainly well placed to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2019

HOWELLS An English Mass. Cello Concerto

Commissioned for the 1977 Leith Hill Festival, Howells’s orchestration of the towering Te Deum that he wrote in 1944 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor (Aaron Sheehan)

This is the third recital devoted to John Beard, the singer for whom Handel wrote almost every significant tenor role...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

Renée Fleming: Lieder

Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018

BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust (Roth)

This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2019

BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Bernius)

Without minimising either the monumental elements of Beethoven’s long gestated Mass setting or its sheer difficulty, Frieder Bernius coaches from...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

Russian Masquerade

Of course transcription involves compromise here and amplification there but the case of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives in this 1962 arrangement...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

Albrecht Mayer: Longing for Paradise

In this programme, Albrecht Mayer asks how composers react ‘when faced with the reality of war and a destroyed homeland....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Richard II. Songs of Travel (Yates)

When, towards the end of the Second World War, the BBC Drama Department asked Vaughan Williams to provide the incidental...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

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