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HANDEL St John Passion. Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder

An anonymous Passion oratorio based on the Gospel of St John survives in Berlin and its aria texts are by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018

FAURÉ Mirages (Bettina Smith)

Bettina Smith turns to four of Fauré’s song-cycles for the latest instalment of her survey of fin de siècle mélodies...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

DVOŘÁK The Complete Moravian Duets

Genuine charm is a rare quality, though this delightful disc possesses it in spades. It gives us Dvořák’s Moravian Duets...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

BUXTEHUDE Abendmusiken

Some Buxtehude discs give us vocal music, some give us instrumental. This one offers both, a tribute to the Sunday-evening...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

BENNETT The Glory and the Dream

What an extraordinarily versatile and accomplished figure was Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012). As both performer and composer he possessed richly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018

J ANDERSON Choral Music

Julian Anderson’s opera Thebans (2013 14), his most elaborate and ambitious musical statement to date, provides a penetrating analysis of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2018

Ray Chen: The Golden Age

I’ll wager that champagne corks were popping in the Decca Classics office when they first heard the finished master of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018

Vivaldi x2 – Double Concertos

Anyone familiar with La Serenissima’s zestily elegant Four Seasons (10/15) will be aware that these musicians represent one heck of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Tilson Thomas)

Here’s a middle-of-the-road interpretation of a work that’s anything but. Indeed, the Pathétique is so emotionally charged and structurally daring...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Romance

I’m frankly astonished by how seldom performers adhere to the letter of Tchaikovsky’s score to his Violin Concerto, as if...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

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