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DURANTE Requiem

Francesco Durante (1684-1755) made a profound mark on musical culture in early-18th-century Naples. His pupils at the city’s prestigious conservatories...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

DANIELPOUR Songs of Solitude. War Songs

Richard Danielpour composed Songs of Solitude (2002), on poems by Yeats, in the weeks following the September 11 attacks; War...

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

CALDARA Salve Regina

Antonio Caldara is best remembered today as a composer of opera. It’s a genre absent from this new collection of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017

Sleepers Awake!

The latest disc from The Bach Players, based as usual on one of their London concert programmes, brings together three...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017

ARNALDS Island Songs

Island Songs follows on from a number of projects by Ólafur Arnalds, such as Found Songs and Living Room Songs...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

Venezia 1700

Les Accents, founded in 2014, is an ensemble devoted to vocal and instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017

The Cellist of Sarajevo

David Wilde’s list of achievements as a solo pianist spanning 50 years – from being the winner of several major...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

SCHULHOFF Chamber Music

Naxos provides a quality sampling from the creative prime of an extraordinarily gifted 20th-century Czech composer-pianist who died of tuberculosis...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

REINECKE Chamber Music for Clarinet, Horn and Piano

Fascinating to hear music by the German composer Carl Reinecke alongside that of the Dane Niels Gade (see page 45),...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

À la mémoire d’un grand artiste

Tchaikovsky started things off by writing his A minor Piano Trio as a musical memorial to Nikolay Rubinstein. Rachmaninov then...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2017

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