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CAVALLI Missa 1660

To celebrate the Treaty of the Pyrenees between France and Spain, and to mark the consequent wedding of the young...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2019

BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust (Rattle)

If a single achievement symbolises the British ‘lead’ in performing Berlioz over the composer’s homeland, it could well be the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH St John Passion (Serov)

A Soviet decree in 1928 forbade performances of Bach’s Passions by the State Academic Cappella more than twice a year,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Cantatas BWV 169 & 82. BWV 33, 17 & 99

The sublime lullaby ‘Schlummert ein’, surely the most searching and sensuous meditation on the favourite Pietist metaphor of death-as-sleep, has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

Leonard Pennario: The Complete RCA Album Collection

The pianist Leonard Pennario has never been ranked with the all-time greats. He died in 2008 but never achieved the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Radio Recordings 1939-1945

Do you want this box? Yes, you do. Is it worth it? Again, yes, almost certainly, it is. Diehard Furtwängler...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

FERGUSON; PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas

The subtitle of this disc, ‘World War II and Holocaust Inspired Sonatas’, raises a question: in what way were any...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

PERRACHIO 9 Poems. 25 Preludes (David Korevaar)

Luigi Perrachio (1883 1966) was born in Turin, where from 1925 he taught piano and later composition at the Conservatorio....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Zander)

Benjamin Zander’s detailed immersion in both the letter and the spirit of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony yielded a generally excellent live...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

BAXTER Resistance

Laurence Vittes, in his review of Garth Baxter’s songs ‘Ask the Moon’ (5/18), rightly categorised his idiom as ‘simple, straightforward,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

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