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CHILCOTT St John Passion

Bob Chilcott’s compact St John Passion follows in outline Bach’s work. It opens powerfully: the chorus proclaim Christ as saviour...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2015

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

At just over an hour, this excellent performance is some 12 minutes shorter than recent issues under Tennstedt (BBC Legends)...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH; SANDSTRÖM Motets

It takes a brave composer to go up against Bach, and despite the best attempts of Jan-Geert Wolff’s elegant booklet-notes...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

The elements constituting an unforgettable Bach Passion journey are always splendidly elusive. Lindsay Kemp wrote that the Academy of Ancient...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

The St Matthew Passion was probably first performed in 1727 but the music we usually hear is from Bach’s revised...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH St Mark Passion

Picander’s libretto for the St Mark Passion was published in his edition of collected poetry (1732). Bach’s lost setting was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

TELEMANN; JSBACH; GRAUPNER Cantatas and Overtures

Behind this project’s eye-catching title lies a neat concept, and a more nuanced reality. The lives of Bach, Telemann, and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

DEVIENNE; GIANELLA; CLUCK; PLEYEL Flute Concertos

These four concertos are linked by the fact that they were all composed in Paris immediately before or after the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Poema: Works for Cello and Strings

Erkki Salmenhaara (1941-2002) was at one time an avant-garde firebrand, his first three symphonies (1962 64) and some other works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

The Orchestra: Abbado and the Musicians of the Orchestra Mozart

The Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado’s last great musical project, ran into financial trouble even before the maestro’s death. Hence this...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

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