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MOZART Requiem HAAS 7 Klangräume

This is a valiant attempt at a worthwhile exercise that nevertheless throws up one or two puzzling matters. The performance...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019

JACKSON The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Conceived to mark the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, in 2014, the Merton Choirbook project set out to create...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019

ELGAR Caractacus (Brabbins)

Although the London performance of the Enigma Variations under Richter in 1899 is invariably cited as the composer’s ‘red letter’...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2019

Kathryn Rudge: Songs by Eric Coates

Eric Coates, the ‘King of Light Music’, is of course best known for his orchestral pieces. His more than 130...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2019

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem (Reuss)

De Doelen hall in Rotterdam may not boast the six-second echo of Bremen Cathedral, birthplace of the German Requiem, or...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

LORIOD The Complete Véga Recordings 1956-1963

For all the eccentric ordering of this fascinating set, which proceeds according to neither chronology of works or recordings, the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

A Tribute to Danny Granados

Danny Granados (1964-2018) studied with Robert Marcellus, first chair clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the Szell years, and embarked...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

Ian Zook: Musica Incognita

This is the second programme of music for solo horn (with – as here – or without accompaniment) to have...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

Sergio Sorrentino: Dream

The art-music repertoire for electric guitar is not extensive, a smattering of concertos aside (not least Fuchs’s Glacier – Naxos,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

Bruce Levingston: Citizen

When Bruce Levingston was invited to give a recital for the opening of the Civil Rights museum in his home...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

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