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MOZART Requiem. Ave verum corpus. Miserere

Here is an unexpected addition to the massive and ever-expanding Mozart Requiem discography: a performance of the work from the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

ŁUKASZEWSKI Motets

Paweł Łukaszewski is a composer for whom choral music is not so much an expression of profound religious faith as...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW17

LORENC The Covenant

It’s not every day you encounter a piece that has been 225 years in the making. Composer Michaπ Lorenc might only...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17

HANDEL Occasional Oratorio

The Occasional Oratorio (1746) was first performed at Covent Garden in the uncertain midst of the second Jacobite Rebellion, two months before...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW17

GLANERT Requiem for Hieronymous Bosch

Another month, another attempt to reconcile the musical tradition of the Latin concert Mass with an age hungry for narrative extras or postmodernist...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

DEBUSSY La Mer. Ariettes oubliées FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande

The release of Robin Ticciati’s first disc with the DSO Berlin coincides with the start of his tenure as the orchestra’s music director....

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17

Yuanfan Yang: Watercolour

In the hands of a master, watercolour can be a most expressive medium, capturing the fragility of a scene or...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17

Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino

This release, entitled ‘Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino’, constitutes a travelogue, or perhaps a ‘competition diary’. In August of 2016, Łukasz...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17

American Nocturnes

A diverse grouping of first sonatas by American composers encompassed Cecile Licad’s Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol 1 (A/16); Vol 2 is given...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

Virtuoso Arrangement by Earl Wild: Rachmaninov

Martin Jones’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mining the piano repertoire en masse continues with a second CD devoted to virtuoso transcriptions...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

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