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M PRAETORIUS Christmas Vespers

‘I am not striving to recreate a complete and authentic 17th-century Vespers service…Rather, my primary goal was to create a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015

PARRY English Lyrics and Other Songs Vol 1

Here is the first of three volumes from Somm which will embrace all 12 sets of Parry’s English Lyrics –...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

MADERNA Requiem

If Bruno Maderna’s modernist page-turners – works such as Quadrivium, Biogramma and his Piano Concerto – is the Maderna that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015

HAYDN The Creation

To Haydn’s radiant vision of prelapsarian innocence, Philippe Herreweghe brings his trademark refinement and subtlety, balancing reverence and a sense...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015

Julia Lezhneva: Handel

Julia Lezhneva performs nine arias and a Marian hymn all composed during Handel’s extended trip to Italy between late 1706...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015

1615 – Gabrieli in Venice

From 1585 Giovanni Gabrieli was organist at St Mark’s Basilica and also director of music for the confraternity at the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015

FAURÉ Songs for Bass and Piano

This is a recording unique unto itself, so comparisons with the dozens of other interpretations of Fauré’s songs already available...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015

BARBER Choral Music

In 1981 Menotti told me that he disapproved of Barber’s transcription of the famous Adagio into a choral piece and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015

HANDEL Messiah; JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

In the last few years the Bavarian Radio Choir and its conductor Peter Dijkstra has notched up a selective discography...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015

Take Two

The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja doesn’t toe the line. Her performances of core repertoire are emotionally supercharged: some listeners balk...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 12/2015

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