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MESSIAEN Les Corps Glorieux

Les Corps Glorieux and La Nativité du Seigneur are Olivier Messiaen’s two major pre-war organ cycles, works that helped clarify...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

DEBUSSY Préludes (Complete)

With Debussy’s Préludes attracting some exceptional recordings (and I include as comparisons only those by contemporary pianists), it’s a bold...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

CHOPIN Nocturnes

Lars Vogt is a pianist I admire greatly, though Chopin is not a composer with whom I’d readily associate him....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

CAGE One7. Four6

Music notation is a map providing points of orientation that allow players to walk the interpretative walk, their idea of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)

Youth has long been thought of as a considerable impediment to the artistically successful – live or recorded – performance...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

Where are you? Pieces from Warsaw

The proMODERN Sextet, new to me, is a highly accomplished group of young singers specialising in contemporary Polish music, and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

Sacred Songs of Life and Love

That Stephen Layton’s recording of contemporary Baltic choral music, ‘Baltic Exchange’, with Polyphony (4/10) displays no overlap of repertoire with...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

O Sacrum Convivium

The Messes solennelles by Langlais and Vierne are regular bedfellows on disc. Here Andrew Nethsinga and the Choir of St...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015

Rupert Charlesworth: Nocturnes

Performances at the Aix-en-Provence festival can sometimes stretch to the other side of midnight. This programme began as a recital...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2015

Ascendit deus

Three previous discs from the Choir of Clare College and Graham Ross have covered Advent, Christmas and Passiontide respectively. This...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015

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