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C MATTHEWS Aftertones. No Man's Land

The Hallé’s association with Colin Matthews continues. Aftertones (2000) was a commission from the Huddersfield Choral Society, these ‘Three Landscapes...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

MASCAGNI Messa di Gloria

Pietro Mascagni’s work on his Messa di Gloria was interrupted in 1887 by his commission to write Cavalleria rusticana. Although...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde

In Conversations with Carlos, Charles Barber describes the singular record of Kleiber conducting Mahler as ‘invaluable’. It’s a word I’d...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

DE LA RUE Requiem. Missa de Beata Virgine

Since this recording was first issued in 2004 there have been at least two new recordings of La Rue’s Requiem,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015

ELGAR The Spirit of England. Arthur

This fascinating CD brings together the collaborations between Elgar and Laurence Binyon – the Spirit of England trilogy (performed complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2015

DVOŘÁK Requiem

Buoyed by the enthusiastic reception afforded his Stabat mater by English choral societies and commissioned to set The Dream of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

BYRD Infelix ego

Penitence might be the prevailing theme on this disc but there’s nothing penitential in the experience of this exquisite recording. Herreweghe...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015

BRAHMS Mass and Motets

These relaxed and often sensuous performances seem conceived to support the view that Brahms’s choral style is shaped more by...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

JS BACH Köthener Trauermusik

For Pygmalion’s debut disc on Harmonia Mundi – following a small but perfectly formed legacy of Bach recordings for Alpha...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 5

First impressions are of an imposing acoustic (Cologne Philharmonie) and – on the back of an unflinching down-the-line trumpet solo...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014

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