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Review of HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus

HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus

It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

Review of DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

Review of DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

Review of BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)

BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)

Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

Review of JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

Review of ALFANO Songs

ALFANO Songs

Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

Review of The Journey of Orpheus;  Andreas Staier: Méditation

The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation

These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024

Review of Eternity

Eternity

This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024

Review of Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)

Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)

If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024

Review of PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)

PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)

Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024


 

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