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Jessye Norman: Lieder

This is a fascinating and rewarding recital, which shows Jessye Norman’s considerable strengths as well as a few idiosyncrasies –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2017

VAN DIEREN Symphony No 1

Rotterdam-born Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) settled during his early twenties in London, where his music enjoyed vociferous support from the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2017

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater

The steady stream of recordings of Pergolesi’s famous death-bed Stabat mater (1736) shows no sign of drying up. The booklet-notes,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

PÄRT Kanonen Pokajanen

Premiered in Cologne in 1998, Kanon Pokajanen for a cappella choir is one of Pärt’s most uncompromising and austere works....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

PADEREWSKI Songs

In whatever role one defines Ignacy Jan Paderewski – charismatic pianist, Polish patriot, ‘a fairly good composer’ (as the booklet-note...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Das Lied von der Erde

Recordings of Schoenberg’s chamber arrangements of Mahler have proliferated of late and this latest version from the Virginia Arts Festival...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2017

JOMMELLI Cantatas

Nicolò Jommelli is one of those figures who loomed large in the 18th century – in 1770 Charles Burney put...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017

HANDEL Susanna

Susanna (1749) is based on a tale from the Apocrypha. Two hypocritical pillars of the establishment make sexual advances to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

HANDEL Messiah

This is Andrew Davis’s second recording of Messiah. His first, made in 1986 for EMI (also with the Toronto Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017

Dixit Dominus

An unusual coupling, this, reflecting the fact that the recording comes from a concert, given in the Auditori in Barcelona....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017

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