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SULLIVAN The Light of the World

Now here’s a genuine find. Premiered to enormous acclaim at the 1873 Birmingham Musical Festival, the 31-year-old Arthur Sullivan’s large-scale...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2019

RORE Vieni, dolce Imeneo. Le Vergine

Given his renown as a composer of madrigals, it comes as a shock that Cipriano de Rore’s discography is so...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2019

HAYDN Il ritorno di Tobia

Asked by the Zurich period orchestra La Scintilla to choose a work for a charity performance, Nikolaus Harnoncourt gave a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2019

HANDEL Messiah (Hill)

The size and nature of forces employed in the history of Messiah, and their impact on performance practices over the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2019

HANDEL Chandos Te Deum. Chandos Anthem No 8

The longest of Handel’s five settings of the Te Deum canticle was probably composed in 1718 or perhaps early 1719...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2019

FRANCES-HOAD Magic Lantern Tales

‘My hero is Benjamin Britten.’ This affirmation comes in a discussion from 2011 between Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Andrew Palmer, and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2019

BRUCKNER Mass No 3 (1893 edition)

Karsten Storck is not a name I’ve previously encountered in the music of Bruckner but this performance of the F...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2019

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone

The young American baritone John Chest has already received lavish praise in these pages. Tim Ashley described his contribution to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019

BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet (Tilson Thomas)

It’s barely a few years ago that the Berlioz champion and biographer David Cairns placed what was virtually an advertisement...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2019

Gloria Cheng: Garlands for Steven Stucky

The sudden death in February 2016 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky came as a major shock not just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019

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