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VERDI Requiem (Dudamel)

If any Requiem is going to be suitable for performance in the 15,000-seat Hollywood Bowl, then I suppose it’s Verdi’s – famously operatic, by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Florian Boesch)

It’s less than six years since the release of Florian Boesch’s first recording of Winterreise, a widely praised Onyx account...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Bo Skovhus)

I had my problems with Bo Skovhus’s recent Schöne Müllerin (7/17), and many of the same issues, alas, blight his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Der Einsame

The ever-increasing tenor population in the Schubert song discography reaches a peak of sorts with Ilker Arcayürek’s intelligently conceived recital, executed...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW17

PALMERI Magnificat

Martin Palmeri is an Argentinian composer, born in 1965. His trajectory is curious from a European perspective, but not so...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17

NOWOWIEJSKI Quo vadis

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) is hardly a household name these days but at the beginning of the 20th century he was considered...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17

MOZART Requiem. Ave verum corpus. Miserere

Here is an unexpected addition to the massive and ever-expanding Mozart Requiem discography: a performance of the work from the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

ŁUKASZEWSKI Motets

Paweł Łukaszewski is a composer for whom choral music is not so much an expression of profound religious faith as...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW17

LORENC The Covenant

It’s not every day you encounter a piece that has been 225 years in the making. Composer Michaπ Lorenc might only...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17

HANDEL Occasional Oratorio

The Occasional Oratorio (1746) was first performed at Covent Garden in the uncertain midst of the second Jacobite Rebellion, two months before...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW17

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