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DESENCLOS Requiem. POULENC Litanies à la Vierge noire

About two-thirds of this excellent disc is devoted to music by Alfred Desenclos, about whom not much seems to be...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

COOPER Silver Threads

Jacob Cooper has a simple and logical explanation for why his song-cycle Silver Threads is set for electronics and voice,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

A fine-sounding, sensitively paced German Requiem with good, fairly chaste choral singing and an especially impressive baritone in Thomas E...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH mass in B minor

There is a natural attraction in a live performance of Bach’s choral masterpiece made in the church where he worked...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Leipzig Cantatas

These four cantatas all come from the first year of Bach’s time in Leipzig, during which he had just started...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

Farinelli: El Maestro

In 1737 Farinelli travelled to Madrid. Once in the Spanish capital of the melancholic Bourbon King Philip V, he was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

House of Dreams

A couple of years back, Tafelmusik’s ‘Galileo Project’ (6/12) linked Baroque music with images and readings reflecting the scientific advances...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

de Greef: The Complete Electric Solo and Concerto Recordings

The name of Arthur de Greef (1862-1940) is never mentioned in discussions of the so-called Golden Age defined by the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

This is a recording of the evergreen Four Seasons to remember and return to. The playing is sublime. Kati Debretzeni...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2014

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