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VENABLES The Song of the Severn

Back in May 2011 I derived much pleasure from a Somm anthology devoted to Ian Venables’s chamber music and now...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015

TALLIS Ave, Dei patris filia

This fifth volume of The Cardinall’s Musick’s complete Tallis edition features a coherent English set made up of Preces and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2015

SCHUMANN Das Paradies und die Peri

This release should be about several things: primarily Simon Rattle’s freshly confirmed artistic relationship with the LSO – this is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2015

SCHUMANN Dichterliebe. Liederkreis

Yes, the three of them do fit. It might seem an obvious piece of programming to bring together the three...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2015

PARRY I was Glad. Hear My Words. Evening Service

This mouth-watering programme of well-known anthems and unfamiliar works has the added attraction of new brass arrangements by Grayston Ives...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: AW2015

HILLER Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt (Psalm 100) PERGOLESI Stabat Mater

If you’ve never heard of Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804), I sympathise. One of music history’s forgotten men, he was revered...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015

HERBECK Grosse Messe

It was Johann Herbeck who had initially dismissed Bruckner’s F minor Mass as ‘too long and unsingable’, which is rich...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2015

Handel in Italy Vol 1

The harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham and her ensemble London Early Opera are not to be confused with Christian Curnyn’s longer-established Early...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015

HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

The Mark Morris Dance Company’s production of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato has toured all over the world...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015

CHILCOTT The Angry Planet

Bob Chilcott is the master of musical pragmatism, making the absolute most of limited forces and abilities. If that sounds...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2015

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