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Mascagni in Concert

Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

BINGEN 'Celestial Hierarchy'. Ordo Virtutum

The first item here is the completion and culmination of Sequentia’s heroic 30-year path towards recording the entire music of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013

CORNELIUS Complete Lieder Vol 1

This is an enchanting disc. Peter Cornelius is best remembered, at least in Germany, as the composer of the opera...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

CARON Masses and Chansons

Continuing their forays through the less well-known parts of the Renaissance repertory, The Sound and the Fury now give us...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013

BRITTEN War Requiem

As with his previous recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts (11/11) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (11/12), Paul McCreesh brings together...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2013

Michelangelo in Song

Legendary recording producer Walter Legge is said to have once told Maria Callas that if she didn’t tame her vibrato,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013

Fame's Great Trumpet

David Owen Norris is best known as a pianist, both as a virtuoso soloist and as an accompanist. But here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

JS BACH Cantatas Vol 54

Bach’s sacred cantata-writing was almost non-existent by the mid-1730s which is why, in this penultimate volume of Masaaki Suzuki’s steady...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2013

Daniel Behle sings JS Bach

If, as I did, you find it difficult to get on with the yapping delivery of ‘Ermuntre dich’, the first...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013

Piers Lane Goes to Town

Very Superior Persons should skip this. The rest of us can sit back and enjoy it. Piers Lane’s booklet traces...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013

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