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Review of NIELSEN Songs for Choir

NIELSEN Songs for Choir

While Sibelius long held a deluded idea of himself as a ‘man of the people’, Nielsen actually was one –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

Review of HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

L’Allegro is just the work for those who doubt that the periwigged monument of Victorian imagination was one of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 4

MAHLER Symphony No 4

In a pre-concert interview around the time of this recording in June 2014, Elizabeth Watts discussed how her academic background...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

Review of C & R SCHUMANN Works for Violin, Viola and Piano

C & R SCHUMANN Works for Violin, Viola and Piano

Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015

Review of LAWES The Royal Consort

LAWES The Royal Consort

William Lawes’s 10 Royal Consort sets (or suites) were probably composed for the Caroline court during the 1630s. Unswerving royalist...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

Review of Sol Gabetta: The Chopin Album

Sol Gabetta: The Chopin Album

The performance of the Sonata is on a large scale, with generous, full tone and a vivid, resonant recording. Gabetta...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

Review of BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

Review of Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices

Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices

There’s a very particular sound to this recording and it’s one you can trace partially back to Delphian’s 2009 disc...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

Review of Italia

Italia

South-West German Radio’s ‘country’ series continues with a varied selection of late 19th- and 20th-century Italian choral music. Given the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015

Review of English Hymn Anthems

English Hymn Anthems

I suppose there must be choirs of equal merit to King’s College but none has the unassailable advantage of making...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015


 

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