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W HAYES 6 Cantatas set to Musick. Orpheus and Euridice: An Ode

>William Hayes (1708-77) was an important writer on musical aesthetics, staunch ally of Handel and one of the founders of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013

GRAINGER Works for Large Chorus and Orchestra

A handful of items we’ve had before – that unforgettable treatment of Kipling’s execution ballad Danny Deever, the exuberant and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue:

GESUALDO Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday

As I’ve mentioned in a previous review (of Victoria’s six-voice Requiem – Signum, 7/11), Tenebrae’s fondness for a monumental sound,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:

BRITTEN 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo. 6 Hölderlin Fragments. Winter Words

Ian Bostridge singing Benjamin Britten is an event. Besides his innate ability to fill the vocal and interpretative shoes of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013

BRITTEN The Canticles

The focus of this complete set of the Canticles is tenor Ben Johnson, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2013

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

This work may seem surprising in the context of a festival called ‘Chopin and his Europe’, but no matter. Philippe...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2013

BOTTESINI Messa da Requiem

Although his reputation today rests largely on his being the first great international double-bass virtuoso, Giovanni Bottesini (1821-89) also composed...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2013

BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts

With the news of the death of Sir Colin Davis in April it is a melancholy pleasure to welcome what...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2013

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2; ROUSSEL Symphony No 3

He looks hardly old enough to have started shaving but, lo, the flash of a smile, an energised swing of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

ŻELEŃSKI Piano Concerto ZARZYCKI Piano Concerto

Władysław Z˙elen´ski’s overture In the Tatras (1870) is still a popular concert item in Poland and Aleksander Zarzycki’s Mazurka in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

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