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TÜÜR Awakening

Erkki-Sven Tüür is surely one of the most consistently high-quality composers around. Even relatively early works, such as his Insula...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012

ROGIER Missa Inclita stirps Jesse. Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae

I’m not sure what inspired Magnificat’s director, Philip Cave, to fly the flag for Philippe Rogier but this recording vindicates...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012

POTT In the Heart of Things

This important new release of a cappella music by Francis Pott draws its title from the final line of Wilfrid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012

ORFF Carmina Burana

There have been many recordings of Orff’s ever-popular Carmina Burana but relatively few of the chamber version. Orff made the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2012

LISZT Works for Choir and Organ

Recordings of the Missa choralis (1865) are thin on the ground. The current benchmark is Matthew Best’s on Hyperion, coupled...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012

KUULA Songs and Orchestral Works

Six months before coming together (with a host of other musicians) to perform Havergal Brian’s Gothic Symphony at last year’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012

HONEGGER Symphony No 4. Summer Pastoral. A Christmas Cantata

While there is strength to some of Honegger’s works, not least his oratorio Le roi David and the orchestral Pacific...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2012

ELIASSON Quo Vadis

Anders Eliasson (b1947) has a reputation as something of an outsider in Swedish music. Now in his mid-sixties, he has...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:

BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XIV

Ton Koopman’s slow-burning project to record Buxtehude’s complete works continues its inexorable path with eight little-known geistliche Konzerte (sacred concertos)....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2012

BRAHMS. SCHUBERT Lieder

I hadn’t come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful. Much is explained by the reference in the booklet...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012

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