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Review of Music for Remembrance

Music for Remembrance

This is an exquisite performance of the Duruflé Requiem, beautifully evoking the inherent intimacy of the version with chamber orchestra...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

Review of Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol 3

Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol 3

This third helping of Eton Choirbook music will gladden all those interested in this fascinating repertory. The commitment shown to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014

Review of Chanson d'avril: French Chansons and Melodies

Chanson d'avril: French Chansons and Melodies

The American soprano Nicole Cabell’s recording career has been a curious one. After winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2014

Review of Ave Maria: Virgin Mary in the Northern Lights

Ave Maria: Virgin Mary in the Northern Lights

This is an imaginative programme of settings of Marian texts by Nordic composers, including Anonymous (the Ave maris stella from...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

Review of The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs

The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs

Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new disc explores two potent strands of Russia’s musical fabric, folksong and Orthodox Church anthems, separated in this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

Review of VIVALDI Pietà: Sacred Works for Alto

VIVALDI Pietà: Sacred Works for Alto

The title ‘Pietà’ alludes to the Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated on...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

Review of VERDI Lieder

VERDI Lieder

Verdi’s songs are worth searching out by those who already know the operas. Ramón Vargas, who has sung a dozen...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014

Review of SCHNEIDER-TRNAVSKÝ Songs from the Song Cycles

SCHNEIDER-TRNAVSKÝ Songs from the Song Cycles

As I had never heard of this composer before and as my knowledge of Slovak poetry is as non-existent as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

Review of NOVÁK Testamentum. Fugae Vergiliane

NOVÁK Testamentum. Fugae Vergiliane

Jan Novák was born in Moravia in 1921 and, after many problems with the Communist authorities and travels abroad that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2014

Review of MAHLER Rückert-Lieder. Kindertotenlieder

MAHLER Rückert-Lieder. Kindertotenlieder

Previous ABC releases from this popular Australian bass-baritone have included a Mozart album which shows off the lighter side of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014

 

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Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...

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