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BLISS Morning Heroes. Hymn to Apollo

It is over 40 years since the last recording of Bliss’s choral symphony Morning Heroes, written in 1930 as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2015

BIBER Missa Salisburgensis. Battalia

That Biber’s massive 54-part Missa Salisburgensis of 1682 was for a long time carelessly attributed to Orazio Benevoli and dated...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Birthday Cantatas

With all the trappings of secular commissions – including additional remuneration and an opportunity for luxuriant scoring – Bach wrote...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015

Four Hands

The husband-and-wife duo of Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson commence this one piano/four hand programme with Brahms’s singerless edition of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015

Ivan Moravec: Twelfth Night Recital

This set was to have been a birthday present for the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who would have been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas

Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015

Satiesfictions

Befitting its extraordinary subject, Anne-Kathrin Peitz and Youlian Tabakov’s brilliant film about the French composer and hardline agent provocateur Erik...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015

REUBKE Piano Sonata. Sonata on the 94th Psalm

Julius Reubke was a remarkable talent whose life was cut tragically sort: he died in 1858 aged just 24. The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015

RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Sonatine. Jeux d'eau

Recalling in particular Stefan Vladar’s fine early recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Sony, 4/92), I turned to the radically different...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015

MENDELSSOHN; F HENSEL Songs Without Words

Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

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