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STANFORD Partsongs

It’s a mark of musical fashion that this disc from Paul Spicer and the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir is the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH The Execution of Stepan Razin

Using roughly the same idiom as his Symphonies Nos 11, 12 and 13, Shostakovich’s The Execution of Stepan Razin tells...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2013

POULENC Gloria. Litanies à la Vierge noire. Stabat Mater

The atmosphere of perfumed ritual in Poulenc’s Gloria finds a ready response in this performance by Parisian forces under Paavo...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013

MOZART Betulia Liberata

Michi Gaigg’s exploration of the azione sacra (sacred drama) Betulia liberata is the latest addition to what is turning out...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2013

MAILLARD Missa Je suis déshéritée

The Marian Consort may be the most recent of the various vocal groups to emerge from the college choirs of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2013

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde

Female British singers seem to have a special relationship with Mahler’s song-symphony and two of today’s finest mezzos are represented...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013

LASSUS Lagrime di san Pietro

Recordings of Lassus’s late masterpiece have appeared at reasonably regular intervals since the 400th anniversary of his death in 1994....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2013

JANÁČEK Brumes d'Enfance / Mists of Childhood

This is an attractive collection of some of Janáček’s most touching and entertaining music. The 19 numbers that make up...

Reviewed in issue 12/2013

HOLST First Choral Symphony. The Mystic Trumpeter

While this recording embodies a special poignancy – it was after the first take of the First Choral Symphony in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2013

HANDEL Belshazzar

No single authentic version of Belshazzar (1745) offers an ideal text, so William Christie collates what he thinks is ‘the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2013

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