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TAVENER Akhmatova Requiem. Six Russian Folk Songs

I have maintained since the moment I heard it in 1981 that Tavener’s Akhmatova Requiem is a masterpiece. Not many...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2014

SULLIVAN On Shore and Sea

Recordings of Sullivan’s choral music are a rare commodity these days, and even rarer still are performances of these two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014

STRADELLA La Forze delle Stelle

Sebastiano Baldini was a poet so well known as a writer of texts for music in his native Rome that...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2014

QUILTER The Complete Songbook Vol 2

The talented baritone Mark Stone adds another fine disc to his discography. Once again, the range of colour and dynamic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2

Mendelssohn’s choral symphony, the Hymn of Praise, still deserves a wider currency than it presently enjoys. Cast as a hybrid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2014

HANDEL Messiah

Emmanuelle Haïm plumps for a neatly convenient four-soloist version presented in the main text of John Tobin’s Bärenreiter edition. This...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

FAURÉ Requiem. Pavane. Songs

Unsurprisingly, their website includes generous words of praise about the first release on the Orchestra of St John’s own label....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014

BRUMEL Missa de beata virgine. Motets

The precise date of Antoine Brumel’s death is not known but its 500th anniversary may well have fallen about the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Choral Works

From the three sets of unaccompanied motets Brahms composed at various times, only one from the second set (Op 74)...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2014

BERG; BUSONI; WEBRN; ZEMLINSKY Lieder

The short-lived Society for Private Musical Performances, founded by Schoenberg and his pupils, is the inspiration for this unusual disc....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2014

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