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VERDI Requiem (Thielemann)

Although Christian Thielemann is primarily associated with the Germanic greats, he – like his one-time mentor Herbert von Karajan –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

SONDHEIM Follies. Company

We should celebrate the fact that within the space of a year London has played host to stagings of not...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

PERGOLESI A Neapolitan Stabat Mater

By now, one could assemble a pretty little discography of well-known works (from Allegri’s Miserere to Stravinsky’s Mass) presented in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Larsson, Skelton)

Adám Fischer’s fascinating (if slightly eccentric) booklet notes speak of the words of Das Lied von der Erde being almost...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

LISZT Via Crucis

Reinbert de Leeuw last recorded Liszt’s pious Via Crucis in 1986 with the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Philips, 5/86), and if...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

KÜNSTEL Markus Passion

The Franconian organist Johann Georg Künstel (c1645-1695) worked as a schoolteacher in Ansbach and later became court organist and then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019

FAURÉ Requiem POULENC Figure humaine

Founded 10 years ago by the conductor Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes – formerly Ensemble Vocal Aedes – have made distinguished...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

BYRD The Great Service & Anthems

Given the renown that The Great Service has enjoyed more or less from the off, introductions are superfluous. There’s nothing...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2019

BERLIOZ Roméo et Juliette (Slatkin)

Two previous releases in this occasional Lyon Berlioz cycle – the Symphonie fantastique (10/12) and Harold en Italie (A/14) –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2019

BAIRSTOW; HARRIS; STANFORD Choral Works

Hyperion’s series ‘The Westminster Abbey Collection’ continues with another superb disc of music composed between 1906 and 1959 by one...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2019

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