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WOLFE Anthracite Fields

Anthracite Fields is the Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and six-piece amplified ensemble (specifically the Bang on a Can All-Stars)...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016

Tavener Conducts Tavener

The title of Cappella Nova’s latest recording is neat, but also confusing. ‘Tavener Conducts Tavener’ is not, as glance might...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2016

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Genz and Dalberto set out their stall in the opening ‘Gute Nacht’: a brisk, inexorably trudging tempo, sparse staccato textures,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2016

RACHMANINOV Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31

Less well known than his setting of the All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Rachmaninov’s earlier Liturgy of St John Chrysostom – it...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2016

MUSSORGSKY Songs and Romances

Men – particularly basses and baritones – tend to have a monopoly on Mussorgsky’s songs, so it’s welcome to see...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2016

MOZART Davide Penitente

Well. I’m not sure whether I should be reviewing this unusual DVD for Gramophone or for Horse & Hound. In...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2016

LEROUX Quid sit musicus? Cinq Poèmes de Jean Grosjean

Machaut’s dual status as poet and composer seems ideally suited to launch a work in which the relation of text...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2016

KORNGOLD Complete Songs

Those who find Korngold’s music difficult to take may blench at the thought of a two-disc collection of his complete...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016

ISAAC Missa Misericordias Domini. Motets

Cantica Symphonia are a mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble long associated with the works of Guillaume Dufay, to whom they...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2016

HOLLIGER Machaut Transcriptions

This is the first of two recordings in this issue in which a living composer dialogues with Machaut, the first...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2016

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