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HANDEL Israel in Egypt (Sorrell)

Handel’s Israel in Egypt is presented here in an excellent performance, from a concert at Shaker Heights, a suburb of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023

GARŪTA Apple Tree

Those who enjoy exploring the uncharted byways of choral music will definitely relish this new disc of a cappella works...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2023

DASER Missa Pater Noster & Other Works

It’s been quite the year for Ludwig Daser. Long eclipsed by his predecessor and successor as Kapellmeister at the Bavarian...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

CHARPENTIER Messe de Minuit

It’s not just that Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) is so well known for his Messe de minuit or that Ensemble Correspondances...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023

ARETINO Lamentationes Et Responsoria

Paulo Aretino (Paolo Antonio del Bivi; 1508 84) is very definitely on trend for the current Renaissance polyphony scene. A...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023

Joachim Carr: Numinosum

The latest Claves release from Joachim Carr is titled ‘Numinosum’, a word drawn from Jungian psychology to describe a sort...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2023

Francesco Corti: Frescobaldi and the South

‘Not without effort does one reach the end’, wrote Frescobaldi at the end of his Toccata IX, which is an...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2023

Yaara Tal: 1923

On this revelatory release, Yaara Tal – inspired by Tobias Bleek’s In the Frenzy of the Twenties – 1923: Music...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2023

Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)

With the exception of Claudio Arrau, Shura Cherkassky is the only pianist this writer knows of whose recording career spanned...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023

HOVHANESS Mountain Fantasies for Piano (Haskell Small)

Alan Hovhaness’s music has been appallingly neglected since his death in the year 2000. In many ways he was ahead...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2023

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