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DALLAPICCOLA Complete Songs

Given that the voice dominates Dallapiccola’s output, it always seems surprising that he wrote so few songs. A handful of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2015

CAVALLI Vespero delle Domeniche

In 1616 the 14-year-old Cavalli joined Monteverdi’s choir at St Mark’s in Venice, and eventually in 1668 he became its...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

BIRTWISTLE Songs 1970 - 2006

Harrison Birtwistle uses the term ‘song’ repeatedly in the three-minute extract from an interview included on the disc – but...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2015

BENDA Sonatas, Sonatinas & Songs

In the 18th century the Bendas were to Bohemia what the Bachs were to Thuringia. Most famous of the musical...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2015

JS BACH Lutheran Masses

Masaaki Suzuki may have completed his distinguished 20-year traversal of the sacred cantatas but there are, thankfully, some additional vocal...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2015

Vienna Philharmonic: Summer Night Concert 2015

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this disc is the sound quality. It is a concert recorded in a kind...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

Insomnia

How do you listen to an album? I ask because it will have a significant impact on your enjoyment of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2015

Les Grandes Répétitions: Stockhausen & Varèse

Perhaps one way to guarantee a hit-rate of better, more informed television music documentaries would be to hand composers a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2015

French Flute Concertos

They are precise and very accomplished. We cannot ask for better technique from Les Buffardins. But a group of only...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2015

WALLIN Manyworlds

Rolf Wallin’s trumpet concerto echoes the myth of the wounded Fisher King whose country degenerates into a wasteland. The ‘openness’...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2015

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