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ELIAS Electra Mourns

Over almost five decades of composing, Brian Elias has created an output which, if not large (his publisher’s catalogue currently...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

DVOŘÁK Mass in D

For the latest instalment of Naxos’s traversal of Dvořák’s choral works, Antoni Wit directs two of Spain’s most venerable and...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2017

BERGMAN Choral Works

For many, Erik Bergman was responsible for freeing Finnish music from its post-Sibelius stasis; for opening the country up to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017

DELIUS; BAX Choral Music

Not much unites Delius and Bax beyond nationality and some mutual friends. Despite the former composer’s famous cosmopolitanism, it’s Bax’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017

JS BACH Cantatas for Soprano

Bach’s dozen or so solo cantatas are all memorable for their vocal expression and refined instrumental commentary but here we...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2017

Volodos Plays Brahms

This is one of those discs where a word count is a strange thing. For it needs only four: Go...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater JS BACH Cantatas Nos 54 & 170

The last few years have been a period of extremes for Pergolesi’s Stabat mater. High-profile recordings have veered wildly between...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2017

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 6

Haydn’s reputation as a competent pianist but no wizard is surely correct; he appears never to have stepped forwards to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS String Sextets

It’s been some years since we’ve had a disc of Brahms’s sextets as thoroughly satisfying as this one, recorded live...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Here for once is a Mahler symphony release that feels different from the outset. Jared Sacks and his colleagues at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017

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