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ELGAR Ecce sacerdos magnus: Music for chorus and orchestra

Given the prevalence of, and admiration for, Elgar’s three large-scale oratorios and The Music Makers, it is good to hear...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2018

DANCKERTS Missa de Beata Virgine

Until recently, all most people knew about Ghiselin Danckerts was that he was a singer in the Papal chapel and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2018

BYRD Motets

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and the Renaissance composer William Byrd are undeniably icons of English music. It is...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2018

BERNSTEIN Mass (Nézet-Séguin)

The more live performances, the more live recordings, one experiences of this marvellous piece the more challenging it seems. No...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2018

JS BACH St John Passion (Otto)

Having the one-to-a-part Scholars Baroque Ensemble and the all-male cathedral forces of Oxford’s New College in its catalogue, Naxos has...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

Neapolitan Concertos for Various Instruments

It’s interesting to imagine what kind of a musical London, Paris or New York we might be looking at today,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018

A Garland for John McCabe

Three years on from his death, John McCabe shows no signs of being forgotten. His music is still performed and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

Ben Goldscheider: Debut

Ben Goldscheider was a finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician, and if the biography in the booklet of this...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018

After the Tryst: New music for saxophone and piano

The saxophone repertoire has expanded considerably over recent decades, though the soprano instrument still tends to be overlooked owing to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

ZELENKA Trio Sonatas ZWV181

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Heinz Holliger first rediscovered and recorded Zelenka’s six sonatas for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018

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