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MACMILLAN Since it was the Day of Preparation

Few composers in recent times have so unequivocally brought their faith into the concert arena as has James MacMillan. Here...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016

EŠENVALDS Passion according to St Luke. The First Tears

Ešenvalds’s St Luke Passion (2014) plunges the listener straight into the midst of the Crucifixion scene, rushing strings underlying the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2016

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Harnoncourt)

This is a remarkable account of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and, in one important respect, an unusual one. For though it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016

RILEY In C. Sunrise of the planetary dream collector

Terry Riley’s proto-minimalist classic In C is ordinarily launched via a punched out high-C pulse on a keyboard, a rallying...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

DOWLAND Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

How to describe Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares? Seven pavans for five-part viol consort with lute, each a subtle transformation...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1,2 & 5

Vasily Petrenko’s gripping recording of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Naxos, 1/09) tantalised listeners that a complete...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 5, 8 & 9

After their scorching performance of the Tenth Symphony (8/15) raised the bar unassailably high, the question loomed as to whether...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2016

BACEWICZ String Quartets

This is a good time to be rediscovering post-war string quartets. The Heath Quartet’s recent Wigmore Hall Tippett set (3/16)...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

HANDEL Alcina

If ever there was an opera production made for the probing, roving eye of the camera, it’s Katie Mitchell’s Alcina,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2016

BACH all'italiano

Perhaps the highest form of Baroque flattery was all-out copying, and with Bach all’italiano the young recorder player Simon Borutzki...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2016

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