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MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2

Mendelssohn’s choral symphony, the Hymn of Praise, still deserves a wider currency than it presently enjoys. Cast as a hybrid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2014

HANDEL Messiah

Emmanuelle Haïm plumps for a neatly convenient four-soloist version presented in the main text of John Tobin’s Bärenreiter edition. This...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

FAURÉ Requiem. Pavane. Songs

Unsurprisingly, their website includes generous words of praise about the first release on the Orchestra of St John’s own label....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014

BRUMEL Missa de beata virgine. Motets

The precise date of Antoine Brumel’s death is not known but its 500th anniversary may well have fallen about the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Choral Works

From the three sets of unaccompanied motets Brahms composed at various times, only one from the second set (Op 74)...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014

BERG; BUSONI; WEBRN; ZEMLINSKY Lieder

The short-lived Society for Private Musical Performances, founded by Schoenberg and his pupils, is the inspiration for this unusual disc....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2014

Jonas Kaufmann: You Mean the World to Me

The distinctive repertoire was planned by Thomas Voigt – not a trawl through predictable encores but a look at the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014

Maria Luigia Borsi: Italian Opera Arias

It is welcome to have on the Naxos budget label a collection of Italian soprano arias as attractive as this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014

WAGNER Lohengrin

No sooner has de Billy walked out of the Vienna State Opera in a dispute about cuts in Lohengrin than...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014

ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri

For its 2013 bicentenary production of L’italiana in Algeri, Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival assembled a cast and conductor whose realisation...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014

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