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HÖLSZKY On the Other Side. Formicarium

Adriana Hölszky, born in Bucharest in 1953, was a pupil of S¸tefan Niculescu, the Romanian composer renowned for strips of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN Vox Cosmica

Hildegard of Bingen is now firmly enough established that she has almost achieved the Bach-like status according to which it...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2015

FAURÉ Requiem GOUNOD Ave verum

There is some peculiar Latin pronunciation to negotiate as well as disconcertingly brisk tempi – for Hervé Niquet In Paradisum...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2015

ELGAR King Olaf. The Banner of St George

This recording of Elgar’s King Olaf on Chandos comes no less than 28 years after the first (conducted by Vernon...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2015

GOUNOD Requiem DVOŘÁK Mass

The Berlin Radio Choir join together with members of the excellent Polyphonia Ensemble in Risto Joost’s moving but not extrovert...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

CAPUANA; RUBINO Requiems

Polyphonic Requiems composed and published in Italy in the 17th century number in the hundreds, so it’s small wonder that...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015

ARNESEN Magnificat KERNIS Musica Celestis

Although this disc was recorded in the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world (in Trondheim), there is nothing chilly about...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015

COPLAND Symphony No 3

Piston’s Suite from his ballet The Incredible Flutist has been his best-known work but it owes more to 19th-century ballet...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015

DAN The Silk Road BUSONI Turnadot Suite

The booklet essay outlines a programme to each work which might not be readily appreciable from the performances. The meeting...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015

Martin Fröst: Nordic Concertos

Fröst is the star of the show here. Not that the four accompanying orchestras and conductors are anything but exemplary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

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