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HAWES Revelation. Beatitudes. Quanta Qualia

Success is a double-edged sword. Become composer-in-residence of a popular classical radio station, feted by the masses and commissioned by...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

DONIZETTI & MAYR Messa di Gloria and Credo

After hearing Rossini’s Stabat mater, the French writer Théophile Gautier remarked, approvingly, that Italian church music was ‘toujours en fête’....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

DEBUSSY; FAURÉ Fêtes Galantes

The Norwegian mezzo Bettina Smith collaborates here with her compatriot, pianist Einar Røttingen, on a fine if shortish programme of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017

CLÉRAMBAULT Motets à trois voix d’hommes et symphonies

Those steeped in the finest lineages of the French Baroque acknowledge Clérambault as a master of the keyboard and a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH St John Passion (sung in English)

For the past 45 years the benchmark recording of Bach’s St John Passion sung in English has been that conducted...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH St John Passion

This admirable <i>St John...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH Mass in B minor, BWV 232

The filming of this B minor Mass operates under some confusion as to whether the music is there to illustrate...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN; WEBER; BAKSA; BRUCH Viola Concerto

Few contemporary composers are harder to pin down than Andreas Baksa (1950 2016). Too easily confused with the American composer...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue:

Chailly: Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi

At first, this looks like a random collection of overtures, preludes and intermezzos gathered by Riccardo Chailly, mixing the familiar...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017

New Era

It was the 18th-century Mannheimers that put the clarinet on the map and inspired Mozart to mine the full expressive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

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