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ELGAR The Hills of Dreamland: Orchestral Songs

Only last January I was heaping praise upon Roderick Williams’s distinguished advocacy of Elgar’s orchestral songs (Chandos, coupled with Andrew...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018

Aimer et mourir – danses et mélodies

Robin Ticciati’s beautiful but uneven first disc with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, pairing Debussy with Fauré, was released in October 2017...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

CALDARA Maddalena al piedi do Cristo

Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo was probably composed for Caldara’s native Venice in about 1697 98, perhaps for the Oratorian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018

BERNSTEIN Wonderful Town (Rattle)

I’ve always been slightly puzzled as to why Simon Rattle (and subsequently Mark Elder) chose to anoint this particular show...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

BERLIOZ Requiem (Gardner; Morlot)

Back in days of old, recordings – and, for that matter, live performances – of Berlioz’s huge-scale Mass for the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Sonn und Schild - Cantatas

‘God the Lord is Sun and Shield’ – the title of Cantata No 79 – is the epithet given to...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Arias and Sinfonias (Benjamin Appl)

There are no concepts, no gimmicks and just a single-word title – ‘Bach’ – for Benjamin Appl’s latest release. This...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

Unexplored

All four works here are premiere recordings – two only in transcription – and the major item is without doubt...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

Scenes From Home: Music for clarinet and piano by Colorado composers

Kellan Toohey, a gifted young clarinettist from Colorado, has bestowed a lovely gift upon composers ‘who are either from Colorado,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

Russian Trumpet Sonatas

Although entitled ‘Russian Trumpet Sonatas’, this album featuring eight Soviet-era sonatas is really the story of two intrepid trumpeters. One,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

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