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SCHUMANN Manfred

‘Terrible night with dreams of death,’ noted the young Schumann in 1829 after reading Manfred. Nineteen years later, in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016

SCHEIN Cymbalum Sionium

Schütz’s close friend Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) was Thomaskantor in Leipzig, where the juggling of classroom teaching, musical responsibilities and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

LASSUS Magnificat

Following their well-received 2013 release, ‘Hymnus’, Die Singphoniker return to Lassus with a new programme. Lassus wrote over 100 Magnificat...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

Although public performances of Dvořák’s Stabat mater are still comparatively rare, the discerning record-buyer is now thoroughly spoilt for choice...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2016

Duet: Lucy Crowe & William Berger

In the latest of his programmes for Delphian, Iain Burnside has looked to mid-19th-century Germany for a recital of (mostly)...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016

BACH Psalm 51 VIVALDI Nisi Dominus

Bach’s engagement with music by his Italian contemporaries is clear from his transcriptions of Vivaldi and copies of church music...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

JS BACH Mass in B minor

There are a plethora of period-instrument recordings of the B minor Mass big and small, from The King’s Consort’s 73...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

ABRAHAMSEN Let Me Tell You

Hans Abrahamsen and Paul Griffiths’s let me tell you, winner of both a Grawemeyer and an RPS award, is inspired...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016

Saimir Pirgu: Il Mio Canto

Credit to the Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu for selecting repertoire that fits his voice in this operatic recital. His bright,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016

Great Verdi Voices

Nobody will contest the premise that the 1960s and ’70s were a very good – golden? well, possibly – period...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016

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