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VERDI Messa da Requiem
Barenboim has made a habit of achieving what others just talk of – whether it’s giving the entry of Wagner’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge. Ten Blake Songs
The easy cliché of English pastoralism is dissolved into something altogether darker and more dystopian in this disc from Mark...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2013
TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
STEFFANI Stabat Mater, Dances & Overtures
The proclamation that Cecilia Bartoli ‘continues her Mission to discover the music of Agostino Steffani’ might lead an unsuspecting public...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
SCHUMANN Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Requiem
With this pairing, Christoph Spering continues his exploration of some of the byways of the choral and vocal repertoire. Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
PALESTRINA Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Harry Christophers’s Palestrina series continues with a Mass based on one of his own motets, O magnum mysterium (a text...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
MOZART Requiem
‘The Lucerne Festival 2012 has begun with a wonder,’ whispered Die Zeit, as quoted on the packaging for Abbado’s DVD...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
MACHAUT Songs from Le Voir Dit
It feels like the Seventies again. Hyperion has apparently committed itself to a complete set of Machaut’s music. Not just...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
HAYDN Mass No 11, 'Nelson Mass'. Symphony No 102
The Nelson Mass is perhaps Haydn’s most popular church work. This is due in large part to the shocked awe...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
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Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Review - The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach (Edited by E Douglas Bomberger)
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Review - Pieter Wispelwey: The Complete Channel Classics Recordings
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