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BRUCKNER Missa Solemnis

The key may be B flat minor but the debt of Bruckner’s opening gambit to the D minor of Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS Song of Destiny: Works for Choir and Orchestra

Jaime Martín turns to the shorter choral works for the second instalment of his Brahms survey, launched last year with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS The Complete Songs Vol 7

For the latest in Hyperion’s Brahms series, Benjamin Appl is reunited with Graham Johnson, restoring a combination that proved so...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

S BACH Six Motets BWV225‑230

Grete Pedersen and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir have been well received in these pages over the past decade for recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Christie)

The mystical ideal of waiting to perform late, great art until well into pensionable age may apply to pianists and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2018

Joseph Calleja; Sonya Yoncheva: Verdi Albums

What is the purpose of a disc of arias from operas the singer has never performed? An audition tape? Trying...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018

STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier (Albrecht)

I would like to have seen on DVD the Dutch company’s 50th-anniversary production of no fewer than four performances from...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2018

ROSSINI Ricciardo e Zoraide (Pérez-Sierra)

Ricciardo e Zoraide was written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1818, midway through Rossini’s seven-year residency in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2018

PUCCINI La Rondine (Repušić)

Puccini’s wartime attempt to emulate the success of Lehár has always been the dark sheep of his output. But La...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

PORPORA Germanico in Germania

Nicola Porpora was long famous by association rather than through his own music. In the early 1750s he was mentor...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018

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