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HANDEL Israel in Egypt

‘In this oratorio Handel saved his successors trouble by writing his own additional accompaniments,’ noted Winton Dean in his classic...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

GRIGORJEVA Nature Morte. Svjatki

This new album from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir reinforces their position as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2016

BRAUNFELS Lieder

Walter Braunfels’s career took flight, almost literally, with the composition of his 1920 opera The Birds, based on Aristophanes’s comedy....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 04/2016

Anna Lucia Richter: Liederkreis

Here is an unusual proposition. Anna Lucia Richter and her accompanist, Michael Gees, offer a recital of songs by Schumann,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Lutheran Masses

The temptation for Masaaki Suzuki to regard the four short Masses as a mopping-up exercise after the conclusion of his...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2016

The Organ of Rochdale Town Hall: Organ Transcriptions Vol 2

Here’s a good old-fashioned town hall organ recital of the kind that had people queuing round the block in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

SIBELIUS Piano Works

Sibelius’s piano music continues to divide opinion, and few commentators, with the notable exception of biographer Erik Tawaststjerna (whose son...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04

RICORDI Carnaval Vénitien

Most readers of Gramophone will have heard the name Ricordi, the great Italian music publisher. How many though, I wonder,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

Jean Rondeau plays Royer & Rameau

This is the second recital disc from the young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The first, a selection of Bach transcriptions,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016

PEJAČEVIĆ Complete Piano Works

My introduction to Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) came via the sixth of CPO’s pioneering discs devoted to her music (7/15), featuring...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

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