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GESUALDO Responses for Holy Week

Given the impact of the first complete recording of Gesualdo’s Responsories by the Hilliard Ensemble for ECM over 20 years...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral and Organ Music

Considering that Duruflé’s choral and organ works span 40 years from the 1920s through to the 1960s, it’s remarkable how...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

John Eliot Gardiner’s earlier recording of the Missa solemnis was a landmark event. Reviewing the disc in these columns, John...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. Symphony No 2

The Habsburg Emperor Joseph II died on February 20, 1790. Amusingly but unfairly caricatured by Peter Shaffer in his play...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 88, 199 & 84

Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut draws on the parable of the Pharisee and the publican but ignores the smugness of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 186, 168, 134 & 54

Followers of this, the only remaining in-progress cantata series, will recall Sigiswald Kuijken’s strategy of selecting a single cantata for...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014

ADAMS El Niño

Chosen as the climax of last year’s The Rest is Noise festival of 20th-century music on London’s South Bank, John...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2014

RAMEAU Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Opera Arias

This is an anthology with a difference. It consists of soprano arias, a duet and a trio, and a few...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014

Che Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical Opera

The American countertenor Bejun Mehta’s thoughtfully chosen programme takes as its theme the new aesthetic of the 1750s and ’60s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014

Simone Kermes: Bel Canto

This kind of internal crossover of repertoire started with conductors – I’m a Baroque specialist but, hey, why don’t I...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2014

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