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VERDI Requiem

Brahms believed that Hans von Bülow ‘disgraced himself for all time’ by lampooning this work as ‘opera in church clothing’....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015

PRZYBYLSKI Passio for 12 Voices

Born in Poland in 1984, Dariusz Przybylski studied in Germany with York Höller and Wolfgang Rihm; this recording was made...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2015

ORFF Carmina Burana

It was inevitable that a ripe choral warhorse such as Carmina Burana should now be worthy of a reassessment in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

C MATTHEWS Aftertones. No Man's Land

The Hallé’s association with Colin Matthews continues. Aftertones (2000) was a commission from the Huddersfield Choral Society, these ‘Three Landscapes...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

MASCAGNI Messa di Gloria

Pietro Mascagni’s work on his Messa di Gloria was interrupted in 1887 by his commission to write Cavalleria rusticana. Although...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde

In Conversations with Carlos, Charles Barber describes the singular record of Kleiber conducting Mahler as ‘invaluable’. It’s a word I’d...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

DE LA RUE Requiem. Missa de Beata Virgine

Since this recording was first issued in 2004 there have been at least two new recordings of La Rue’s Requiem,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015

ELGAR The Spirit of England. Arthur

This fascinating CD brings together the collaborations between Elgar and Laurence Binyon – the Spirit of England trilogy (performed complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2015

DVOŘÁK Requiem

Buoyed by the enthusiastic reception afforded his Stabat mater by English choral societies and commissioned to set The Dream of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

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