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BLISS The Beatitudes

Commissioned for Coventry’s new cathedral in 1961, Bliss’s cantata The Beatitudes was destined to be overshadowed by Britten’s War Requiem,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Layton)

When Jonathan Freeman-Attwood reviewed the rather good B minor Mass from Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo (11/14), he spoke of it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH Secular Cantatas, Vol 9

Scant documentation on Bach’s personal motivation and experiences encourages us to look more deeply into why particular works exist. In...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio (Rademann)

Gone are the days when a Christmas Oratorio was a three-CD affair. This one fits on two discs with room...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonata. 24 Preludes

It makes sense to couple the two Shostakovich piano trios, even if his first work in the form is a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018

SCHUMANN Romances (Céline Moinet)

Céline Moinet and Florian Uhlig’s Schumann album places the Op 94 Romances for oboe and piano alongside a sequence of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2018

REGER String Trios. Piano Quartet No 2

Once read, it’s hard to forget, but best to lay aside Reger’s claim for his Op 77b String Trio as...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018

PARSONS Patterns of Connection - Instrumental Music 1962‑2017

In 1969 Michael Parsons founded the Scratch Orchestra alongside Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton. Parsons’s music before then tended to...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2018

MOZART Serenades Nos 11 & 12

What could be better than Mozart in entertainment mode, writing with his characteristic sensitivity for wind instruments? And what could...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

JANITSCH Rediscoveries from the Sara Levy Collection

The Berlin composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-c1762) occasionally catches the ear on anthologies of music from the court of Frederick...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018

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