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HOLST The Coming of Christ, H170

The real rarity here is The Coming of Christ. This is a play by John Masefield, commissioned by George Bell,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012

M HEAD Songs

Really, the enterprise of Hyperion knows no bounds. Here is a disc devoted to songs by Michael Head, who is...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012

HAYDN The Creation

Filmed in the evocative setting of the Gothic Grote Kerk in Naarden, with its magnificent painted wooden vaults, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2012

Delius Complete Songbook Vol 1

The remarkable thing about this first volume of the collected Delius songs, quite apart from the quality of Mark Stone’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2012

DEBUSSY Songs

Natalie Dessay returns to recording French mélodies for the first time since she made a few cameo appearances on the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012

BRAHMS Music for Chorus and Orchestra

Antoni Wit is proving to be one of Naxos’s greatest assets, a conductor of strong personality who puts musical values...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2012

Marie-Nicole Lemieux sings Mahler, Berlioz & Wagner

What a curious first impression Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s Berlioz/Wagner/Mahler recital makes in the wake of her fine Schumann disc (Naïve, 4/10)...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012

JS BACH St John Passion

Both of these new recordings adopt the one-voice-per-part method (‘OVPP’), which means concertino solo singers perform throughout but are reinforced...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2012

Modern TImes

Christian Immler has long championed the songs of so-called entartete (‘degenerate’) composers forced into exile by the Nazis. He and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2012

Mare Nostrum

This release reprises the sumptuous production values of Alia Vox’s recent projects centred on Jerusalem and on the Borgias. When...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2012

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