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HERSANT Stabat Mater. Clair Obscure

Among the generation of French composers who emerged after the dissolution of the avant-garde, Philippe Hersant (b1948) occupies a distinctive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op 3/2. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Eternal source of light divine was written (but perhaps not performed) for the birthday of Queen Anne in 1713. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XVIII

This marks the last issue in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra’s traversal of the music of Dieterich Buxtehude, a landmark acknowledged...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2014

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu nostri

Buxtehude’s concise cantata-cycle Membra Jesu nostri is an exquisite contemplation of seven different parts of Christ’s crucified body. Daniel Hyde’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

Alastair Miles: Lieder by Wolf & Brahms

Alastair Miles’s gravely sonorous bass is finely attuned to Brahms’s and Wolf’s vocal swansongs, linked by their themes of human...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

BIRTWISTLE The Moth Requiem. The Ring Dance of the Nazarene

I doubt whether anything the year brings for Birtwistle’s 80th birthday is going to dim the lustre of this excellent...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2014

BIBER Vespers for the Blessed Virgin KERLL Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis

Johann Caspar Kerll studied with Carissimi in Rome and worked his way up through the ranks at the Munich court....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

MOZART Requiem

Purely on grounds of performance alone, this is one of the finest Mozart Requiems of recent years. John Butt brings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

Il Diario di Chiara

Music from the Pietà, and less than a quarter of it by Vivaldi? That’s right. Vivaldi is only the most...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

SCHWARZ-SCHILLING Symphony for Strings

Easy to respect but not so easy to hear, the newly formed chamber orchestra Symphonia Momentum shows its commitment to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014

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