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HANDEL Theodora

The first staged production of Theodora was as long ago as 1926 but Glyndebourne’s iconic 1996 production smashed the Handel...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2012

ZACHOW Easter Cantata HANDEL Chorale Cantata

Handel’s name is on the cover, and so is a bold photograph of his statue’s silhouette by the Marktkirche in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2012

GÓRECKI Choral Music

There is only one serious problem with this choir – it has the word ‘Youth’ in its name. It may...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012

GESUALDO Quinto libro del madrigali

Twenty years on from their acclaimed ‘Tenebrae’ recording on ECM (3/92), the Hilliard Ensemble return to Gesualdo, this time for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012

DVOŘÁK Songs & Duets

Designed for the amateur domestic market, Dvořák’s settings of Moravian folk poems captivate with their lyrical grace (Dvořák was as...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

DELIUS Mass of Life. Prelude & Idyll

To witness a performance of Delius’s A Mass of Life, arguably his supreme creative achievement, is to look into the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2012

COUPERIN Exultent superi

Considering that in his three Leçons des ténèbres he produced an unsurpassed gem of Baroque vocal music, it is surprising...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012

BRITTEN War Requiem

This latest recording of Britten’s War Requiem arrives almost 50 years to the day after the work’s acclaimed premiere at...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2012

JS BACH St Matthew Passion BWV244

The conversation between Peter Sellars and Simon Halsey articulates a lot of what’s special about this ‘ritualisation’ of the Great...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2012

JS BACH Easter Oratorio

While the Easter Oratorio derives much of its material from cantatas, it is the only example where Bach employs free...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2012

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