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Hommage to Johannes Ockeghem

In a recent online round-up, I remarked that Obrecht’s discography is more remarkable for quantity than consistency, especially in the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013

NØRGÅRD Libra. Rêves en pleine lumière. Kredsløb (Cycle)

Listening to Per Nørgård’s Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013

IRELAND Church Music

Ireland’s church music has a modest restraint, compared with the output of Bairstow, Howells and Parry. But his significant contribution...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2013

My Beloved Spake: Anthems by Purcell & Humfrey

It is nice these days to have a chance to hear some of Purcell’s church anthems sung by a choir...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

FAURÉ Requiem

The usual suspects to pair with Fauré’s Requiem – Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe Basse – get more exposure...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2013

ELGAR Music in Wartime

Here’s a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War, three of which...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2013

BONONCINI Stabat Mater & Messa

Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) was the younger brother of the celebrated opera composer Giovanni. Both studied in Bologna, relocated to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

A far cry from the sombre and disillusioned collaborations between the Thomaners and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the post-war years,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013

Tango Rhapsody

Piazzolla’s music, and tango nuevo itself, is a bit like marmite. I will confess to being a lover – in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013

Solti: Journey of a Lifetime

Georg Wübbolt’s film celebrates the 100th anniversary of Solti’s birth on October 21, 1912. After the selection of pithy encomiums...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013

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