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JACKSON Airplane Cantata. Choral Symphony

Between 2010 and 2013 Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer at the BBC Singers and in that time produced eight works...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2014

Miserere mei Deus

This is a reissue of a CD first published in 2002 with the title ‘Lamentatio’ and now given an intriguing...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2014

HEGGIE & SCHEER Out of Darkness

Any artistic endeavour related to the Holocaust is held to a different standard: the gulf between the artist’s intentions and...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2014

FAURÉ Requiem. Cantique de Jean Racine. Messe basse

King’s College Choir has a distinguished recording history of Fauré’s evergreen Requiem, starting with David Willcocks’s much-loved 1967 LP. This...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2014

DOVE All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song Cycles

If you want to find out what has happened to English song since Britten, this is as good a place...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

Charpentier at the Royal Chapel in Versailles

A treasure map is needed to find one’s way through this release. The CDs and DVD, exquisitely encased in a...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

BUXTEHUDE Vocal Works Vol 9

The 19th volume in Ton Koopman’s ambitious project to record Buxtehude’s complete works is devoted to another cross-section of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone, Op 33

The Magelone Romances – an anthology rather than a true cycle – have never been a Brahmsian favourite. Ludwig Tieck’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2014

Touching the Sound: The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii

I welcomed Peter Rosen’s film of Nobuyuki Tsujii’s Carnegie Hall debut in the November 2012 issue. Here Rosen tells the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

Tickle the Minikin: 17th-century lyra viol music

‘Tickle the minikin’ is 16th-century slang for playing the highest string of a viol, like a pub pianist ‘tinkles the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

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