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HENZE Lieder vion einer Insel. Orpheus Behind the Wire

Choral music forms a not insignificant aspect of Henze’s output, these three cycles offering a viable (if inevitably partial) overview...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

Dorothee Mields: Handel

Handel for viola da gamba? Well yes, there is some, mainly from his early years in Italy, including obbligato parts...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2018

EISLER Lieder Vol 2

The second volume of MDG’s survey of Hanns Eisler’s songs covers the period from after his return from American exile...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2018

DYSON Choral Symphony

A game of two halves in which the first might be more noteworthy but the second is far better. Paul...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2018

DVOŘÁK Requiem (Herreweghe)

With forces a fraction of those envisaged by the composer and not a single Czech or English native among the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona Nobis Pacem BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms

Though scored by Vaughan Williams with the Huddersfield Choral Society in mind, it transpires that Dona nobis pacem need lose...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Rademann)

There are strong arguments for opening out the themes of the Passion by means not of a staging transplanted from...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

Timeless Night: Estonian Cello Works

You get your money’s worth here: Estonia’s flagship orchestra, two of the finest choirs in the Baltics (and, therefore, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

Una Serata Venexiana

With every disc they release there’s something new to like about Capella de la Torre – oboist Katharina Bäuml’s Austria-based...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2018

Vilde Frang: Homage

For openers Vilde Frang treats us to a chirpy morsel by Franz Ries, La capricciosa, a piece that as a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018

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