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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

This is Bernard Haitink’s first recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, a remarkable fact in itself which becomes doubly so when...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015

American Polyphony

This is an atmospheric anthology, fastidiously chosen and delivered by this fine choir. The Barber Agnus Dei, the vocal version...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2015

JS BACH Motets

The discography of Bach’s motets is as extensive and diverse as that devoted to any iconic set of Baroque choral...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015

J BACH; JC BACH; JM BACH Vocal Works

The mystique of the ‘Vor Bach’ generations has intensified in the last 30 years, from the early recorded forays of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10

Andris Nelsons’s first (live) recording as Music Director of the Boston Symphony is quite something. It carries the title ‘Under...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015

Paolo Bordogna: Tutto buffo

The young Italian baritone Paolo Bordogna rattles and prattles his way through this programme of comic arias with an easy...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

Miah Persson: Sempre libera

Swedish soprano Miah Persson uses this recital to go a grade or two heavier than her accustomed Mozart, Handel and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015

VERDI Simon Boccanegra

What? Simon Boccanegra without Plácido Domingo in the title-role? Ever since Dmitri Hvorostovsky began stepping carefully into the heavier Verdi...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2015

W TODD Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A promenade performance round London’s Holland Park of Will Todd’s opera for children must have been a delightful experience, as...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2015

STRAUSS Feuersnot

Only a matter of months after the release of a new CD recording of Strauss’s second opera (CPO’s fine Munich...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

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