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Wed 19 Jul, 2017:
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Mon 12 Jun, 2017:
Bach: St John Passion (Sung in English)
The first St John Passion in English in nearly half a century surpasses its venerable predecessor, Benjamin Britten’s 1971 Decca recording with...
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Mon 05 Jun, 2017:
Mendelssohn: Symphonies – No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (Scottish); No 5 in D minor, Op 107 (Reformation)
A superb coupling that harbours a major surprise. Like Yannick Nézet-Séguin on his memorable new complete set of Mendelssohn’s numbered symphonies...
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Wed 17 May, 2017:
Haydn: The Seasons
What, a 50-bar fugue on just six words “for thy bounty, thanks be given”? Placed at the end of section 6, it is but one example of canny mastery...
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Fri 12 May, 2017:
Michael Gielen Edition, Volume 4 (1968-2014) – Orchestral works by Berlioz, Dvořák, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Smetana, Johann Strauss II, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Weber
There are riches galore in this fourth volume from SWR Music devoted to the recorded legacy of Michael Gielen (who turns 90 this September). The focus...
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Mon 03 Apr, 2017:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet)
François-Xavier Roth and his superb period-instrument band Les Siècles give us a thrillingly alive and intoxicatingly atmospheric rendering of...
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Mon 27 Mar, 2017:
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 (Great); Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Masaaki Suzuki’s soft-grained period instrument sound is ideal for Bach cantatas, but for Mozart’s large-scale choral music it lacks punch. Suzuki...
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Wed 15 Feb, 2017:
Leighton: Complete Organ Works
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) wrote with consummate skill for the organ. His thrillingly communicative 1970 Concerto for the instrument with string...
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Tue 17 Jan, 2017:
Rossini: Opera Arias
A joyously sung love song from Demetrio e Polibio (Rossini’s first opera) opens this collection of Rossini ‘trouser roles’ sung by the...
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Wed 07 Dec, 2016:
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (New Concert Edition by Sir Andrew Davis)
HIP-sters be warned: here’s a Messiah to divide opinion. Andrew Davis’s 'new concert edition' springs out of the speakers with all the glossy pomp...
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Wed 16 Nov, 2016:
Remembrance – Duruflé: Requiem, Op 9; and works for a cappella chorus by Richard Farrant, Thomas Tomkins, John Tavener, Robert Ramsey, William Harris, W H Monk, Edward Elgar and Thomas Weelkes
This “Remembrance” disc draws on five centuries of music to commemorate the victims of two world wars. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, has...
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Fri 11 Nov, 2016:
English Visionaries – Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes; Prayer to the Father of Heaven; Mass in G minor, Lord, Thou hast been our refuge; Holst: The Evening Watch, Op 43 No 1; Sing me the Men, Op 43 No 2; Howells: The House of the Mind
The partnership between the student voices of the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir and Somm Recordings goes from strength to strength on this...
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Tue 08 Nov, 2016:
Stanford: Stabat Mater, Op 96; Song to the Soul, Op 97a; The Resurrection
Stanford aficionados and lovers of English choral music will want to add this attractive, warmly played, luminously sung recital to their collections....
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Fri 21 Oct, 2016:
Berkeley: Stabat Mater; Mass for five voices; Judica me; Michael Berkeley: Touch Light
Lennox Berkeley’s Stabat Mater (1947) was commissioned by Peter Pears for an English Opera Group tour, hence the modest forces of six singers and 12...
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