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FRANZ Lieder

‘My Lieder are not meant to awake the passions, but to create peace and tranquillity’, wrote Robert Franz (1815 92)...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

New recordings of Dvořák’s grief-riven Stabat mater (1877) come along quite regularly nowadays. Philippe Herreweghe’s refreshingly splendid 2013 disc for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2017

DVOŘÁK The Spectre's Bride

Dvořák’s 1885 cantata for Birmingham has been praised in Gramophone for its ‘blend of horror and lyrical beauty’ (Jan Smaczny,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017

CAVALLI Vespero della Beata Vergine Maria

In 1675 Cavalli published a large collection of church music containing three sets of Vespers psalms and canticles, presumably the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone. Vier ernste Gesänge

>‘I am a sucker for late-Romantic song or perhaps for histrionic fairy tales of derring-do and blushing maidens’, states baritone...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Complete Duets and Quartets

CPO’s complete Brahms song series started as long ago as the early ’90s, and the sessions for this release –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

Listeners initially disconcerted by the smooth legato of the Kyrie’s opening statements may be reassured: this is not one of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

JS BACH Mass in B minor

The paradox of recent performances of this mightiest of Bachian edifices is that as directors seek to be distinctive, almost...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2017

Maestro Corelli’s Violins

‘Maestro Corelli’s Violins’ is an intriguing title for a recording featuring no works by Corelli, but it refers to the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017

Czech Viola Sonatas

Here’s a bold experiment: a survey of viola music by Czech composers, mostly born in the 1920s, whose names many...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2017

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