Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)
No one who loves Pärt’s music will want to be without this set
Reviews
Antonio Caldara: Gloria; Respighi: Lauda per la Nativita del Signore (Mirko Guadagnini)
A lively instrumental introduction to this performance leads to disappointment when the choir enters
Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio (Benjamin Nicholas)
Sarah Connolly conveys Mary’s wonderment and even fear with grace and not a flutter of girlishness
JS Bach: Organ Transcriptions (Wolfgang Rübsam)
Every note, every rhythmic delay, every extended up-beat, every spread chord is planned with astonishing detail
Arvo Pärt: Tractus (Tönu Klajuste)
The vocal works seem to transcend speech, while the orchestral pieces clearly articulate their source texts
Apollo5: Haven
Some of the most insightfully earthy singing of Byrd (the Mass for Five Voices) you’re likely to hear
Ola Gjeilo: Dreamweaver
The Holloway singers don’t go sad-sack on it but simply and subtly temper their delivery
Organ Music of Pierre Kunc – French composer and organist (Damin Spritzer)
Damin Spritzer, as usual, plays this unknown repertoire with a impressive sense of devotion and attention to detail
Liszt: Piano works, arranged for Organ (Diederik Blankesteijn)
The music translates extremely well to the sonorous Bätz organ in the generous acoustic of Utrecht’s Domkirk
J.S. Bach: Complete Organ Works
An outstanding testament to one of the more remarkable European organists of the last 40 years
Mozart: Mass in C minor (ed. Kemme); C.P.E. Bach: Heilig ist Gott
The Dunedin Consort present ‘a superb account’ of Mozart’s Mass in C minor under the direction of John Butt
Parry: Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’; Blest Pair of Sirens
A lesser known work brought back to life
Divins mystères – Organ discoveries: Berkeley and Caumont manuscripts
The Chapelle Royale’s generous acoustics are wonderfully captured on this recording
Bach: Complete Organ Works vol.10, alternative versions
The culmination of one of the finest 'complete' Bach organ works
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