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BERNSTEIN Mass (Russell Davies)

Regular readers will know that I think this to be a masterpiece – perhaps Bernstein’s most significant, certainly his most...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020

BERIO Coro. Cries of London (Version for 8 Voices)

Just what was Berio trying to achieve in the meticulous, variegated, sensitive, texture-obsessed, micro/macro-experimental masterpiece for 40 voices and 40...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020

Chen Reiss: Immortal Beloved - Beethoven Arias

The programme alone whets the appetite. The Israeli soprano Chen Reiss and Richard Egarr have concocted an offbeat selection of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020

Prisma Vol 3

Whereas previous instalments of Navona’s mixed-composer ‘Prisma’ series have featured multiple performers, Vol 3 features just one orchestra, the Janáček...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020

Once Upon a Time (Skylark Vocal Ensemble)

What an alluring release this is, and not only because the music is built around two beloved fairy tales, Snow...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2020

Longing: Chamber Music of Reza Vali

This sixth album from the Iranian composer Reza Vali is dedicated to love and longing as heard through a lavishly...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2020

FARRENC Etudes & Variations for solo piano (Joanne Polk)

Since Joanne Polk has long championed piano music by important pioneering women composers such as Fanny Hensel and Amy Beach,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020

AMIRKHANIAN Loudspeakers

Charles Amirkhanian (b1945), composer, percussionist, record producer (not least of early discs by Antheil and Nancarrow, whose music Amirkhanian championed)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020

Daniel Moult: The English Organ

North German organs of the late 17th/early 18th centuries and French organs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, along with...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2020

Lucas Debargue: To music

Happy the young musician with a film-maker for a friend. At least if the film-maker is as talented – yet...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020

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