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LISZT Via Crucis

Reinbert de Leeuw last recorded Liszt’s pious Via Crucis in 1986 with the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Philips, 5/86), and if...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

KÜNSTEL Markus Passion

The Franconian organist Johann Georg Künstel (c1645-1695) worked as a schoolteacher in Ansbach and later became court organist and then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019

FAURÉ Requiem POULENC Figure humaine

Founded 10 years ago by the conductor Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes – formerly Ensemble Vocal Aedes – have made distinguished...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

BYRD The Great Service & Anthems

Given the renown that The Great Service has enjoyed more or less from the off, introductions are superfluous. There’s nothing...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2019

BERLIOZ Roméo et Juliette (Slatkin)

Two previous releases in this occasional Lyon Berlioz cycle – the Symphonie fantastique (10/12) and Harold en Italie (A/14) –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2019

BAIRSTOW; HARRIS; STANFORD Choral Works

Hyperion’s series ‘The Westminster Abbey Collection’ continues with another superb disc of music composed between 1906 and 1959 by one...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH St Mark Passion (Savall. Fischer)

There are two printed sources of the St Mark Passion libretto but its music is completely lost. Since the 1870s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019

WEBER Der Freischütz (Chung)

Weber’s Der Freischütz rarely gets productions outside of Germany and Austria, so Matthias Hartmann’s 2017 staging for La Scala, Milan,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2019

ROSSINI Le Comte Ory (Langrée)

Rossini’s sublimely amusing late comedy Le Comte Ory is very much a game of two halves, the second act being...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2019

RAMEAU Les Indes galantes (Vashegyi)

The first thing to say is that this is quite excellent, well up to the standard of the two previous...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2019

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