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MOČNIK Pasijon Po Janezu (St John Passion)

Damijan Močnik’s music has not so far been familiar to me, but he is a very active figure in the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023

HANDEL Solomon (Alarcón)

Leonardo García Alarcón uses the recent HHA edition (2014) of Solomon, although departs surreptitiously from Handel’s orchestration several times. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2023

GÓRECKI Beatus Vir. Concerto-Cantata. Canticum Graduum

Beatus vir is classic second-period Górecki, written three years after the notorious Symphony No 3, in 1979, and receiving its...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023

DASER Polyphonic Masses

Poor Ludwig Daser (c1525-1589). If you’ve heard anything about him it was probably that he once retired as Kapellmeister to...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2023

BERLIOZ Romeo & Juliette. La Mort de Cleopatre (Nelson)

The descriptor symphonie dramatique for Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette is a bit of a misnomer; it’s neither a symphony nor...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2023

Barnaby Smith: Bach

No falsettist worth his salt can resist these two sublime cantatas, saturated with echt-Lutheran life-weariness and death-longing. Barnaby Smith, best...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023

JS BACH Trinitatis: Cantatas

These three cantatas have long been in the canon as celebrated examples of Bach in the first flush of Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2023

Sarah Beth Briggs: Variations

Richard Goode once witnessed a pianist auditioning for Rudolf Serkin with Mozart’s Duport Variations. After it was over, Serkin said:...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

Jean Rondeau: Gradus ad Parnassum

Debussy, one suspects, would not have touched a harpsichord with a bargepole. Yet here is ‘Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum’, his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2023

Matthew Barley: Electric

Profiling cellist Matthew Barley a few years ago (6/19), Charlotte Gardner aptly called his multi-genre output a ‘fizzing cornucopia’. His...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023

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