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BRAHMS An English Requiem

Listeners familiar with Ein deutsches Requiem may experience some cognitive dissonance from the outset, hearing the closed English ‘are’ vowel...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

JS BACH Leipzig Cantatas BWV101, 115, 103

Another gift of relatively unfamiliar Bach cantatas from Philippe Herreweghe allows us to drop in on the composer’s second Leipzig...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

Water and Fire: Handel Revisited

What do we want from our Handel, and what makes a successful modern-times transcription of a Baroque work? These have...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

New Worlds: Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends

If this disc is Bill Murray’s belated attempt to launch a crossover career as a crooner, it’s an unusual way...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

Last Leaf

‘Last Leaf’ refers to the last leaf of parchment in the Codex Runicus, a tome dating from around 1300 that contains one...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

The Cello in Wartime

Of the numerous First World War-themed recordings that have come our way since 2014, this must be one of the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017

BWV … or not?

Does it matter if a classical work is either of uncertain origin, penned by a long-forgotten composer or stylistically atypical of its...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

Altri canti d’amor: 17th Century Instrumental Works

Despite the title and repertoire, there is no singing on this well-chosen debut CD release by the Spanish ensemble L’Estro...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

USTVOLSKAYA Chamber Music

The music of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) has divided opinion since bursting on to Western new music a quarter-century ago, and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

TELEMANN Complete Trio Sonatas with Recorder and Viol

>‘How could I possibly remember everything I composed for strings and winds? I particularly devoted myself to the composing of trios … People even flattered...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

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