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RUEHR Choral Works

Three American poets supply the texts for this enterprising release of music by Michigan-born, Juilliard-trained Elena Ruehr (b1963). She is...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012

RAVEL Mélodies

The emancipation of the human voice in terms of communicating the intricacies and inflections of the French language is comprehensively...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012

MENDELSSOHN Elijah

I’m not a fan of filmed concerts but I do wish this recording had been made for DVD, as the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012

ELGAR The Starlight Express

It was Violet Pearn (1890-1947) who decided to stage Algernon Blackwood’s (1869-1951) children’s book A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913), and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

ELGAR The Apostles

Sir Mark Elder and his Hallé forces continue to set stellar standards in large-scale Elgar and this new recording of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

DVOŘÁK Cypresses Song Cycle. String Quartets

Even the best-informed Dvořák followers may not realise that his 1887 Cypresses, the collection of string quartet miniatures that often...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012

DOVE There Was a Child

With its title quoting Walt Whitman, Jonathan Dove’s 50-minute cantata commemorates the life of a boy who was tragically drowned...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2012

CHARPENTIER Leçons de Ténèbres

Alpha’s house-style of booklets containing erudite essays on both the music and the fine art featured on the front cover...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2012

The Complete Havergal Brian Songbook Volume 1

Havergal Brian’s many songs and part-songs as well as the Gothic Symphony confirm what an accomplished word-setter he was. The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

BRAHMS Complete Songs Volume 4

In his vocal autumn, Robert Holl fields a bass-baritone of slightly grizzled nobility, with impressive sonorous depth. If high notes...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

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