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JOMMELLI Requiem (Prandi)

It was as recently as July that I welcomed a high-quality recording of Jommelli’s Requiem that at last superseded a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

HEGGIE Unexpected Shadows

Jamie Barton’s all-embracing talent – her powerful presence, her spectacular vocal equipment – has a whole lot of Heggie to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20

BRUCKNER Mass in E minor STRAVINSKY Mass (Leenaars)

It’s not often that works by Bruckner and Stravinsky are paired together, but the two Masses on this release make...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20

JS BACH Motets (Pichon)

A whole generation has elapsed since René Jacobs’s much-admired disc of Bach motets (Harmonia Mundi, 7/97), and even its high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

JS BACH St John Passion (Suzuki)

When Bach Collegium Japan performed the St John Passion in London early on in their spring 2020 European tour –...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW20

Lament: Works by Hagen, Asheim and Nordheim

Where might the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir head after Berio’s Coro, pondered Gramophone’s review of the ensemble’s last recording (6/20). The...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW20

SCARLATTI The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 6 (Carlo Grante)

Domenico Scarlatti stands in relation to his great Baroque era contemporaries Bach and Handel much as Chopin did to peers...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

Bertrand Chamayou: Good Night!

Bertrand Chamayou begins the essay to his new disc of berceuses and lullabies with the admission ‘I’m a night owl’....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

Sarah Beth Briggs: The Austrian Connection

To my ears, Haydn’s ‘Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser’ Variations lose something in translation en route between the original string...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

ZIMMERMANN Complete works for piano (Eduardo Fernández)

Recent anniversaries have undoubtedly raised the profile of Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Stopping short of full maturity, his solo piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW20

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