Love Divine: Renaissance & Contemporary Choral Works
A seemingly quixotic programme becomes a genuine triumph, thanks to luminatus's clarity, balance, and inspired repertoire choices
Reviews
Georg Österreich’s Resurrected Treasures: North German Cantatas Around 1700
Full marks for commitment, but the real interest here is historical – a rare glimpse into pre-Bach sacred music
Angel of Peace
Warm-tone, exquisite phrasing, and proper attention to the text mark out The Sixteen's singing on this fine CD
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, ed David Matthews | Score review
David Matthews’s new edition of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony is a triumph of clear thinking, meticulous research, and deep musical insight
Anam: Music to Move the Soul
Apollo5’s seventh album, Anam, brings together a range of Celtic influences – texts, songs, melodies
Praise Him with Trumpets
Bristol Choral Society produces a thrilling sound in this demanding programme, a true passion project for director Hilary Campbell
Una poesia muta: Art in Early Cinquecento Venice
The Marian Consort brings its habitual clarity and beauty
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
A masterful recreation of Brahms’s Requiem as first performed, balancing precision with historical
Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works, Vol 4
Owens’s playfully free interpretation of Pachelbel’s works is carefully contrived to bring out the best of the counterpoint on offer here
Byrd: Organ Works
Belder plays with expression and a capricious sense of the impulsive nature of the music
Paul Ignatz Liechtenauer: 4 Masses, Op 2
Clarity of articulation is one of Willens’s hallmarks in these lovingly prepared performances which will surely win many new friends for Liechtenauer’s music
Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works Vol 9
Elke Völker manages this mercurial music brilliantly, manipulating every gesture, phrase and dynamic contour as if the 90+ stop Walcker were a puppet on a string
Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music
A powerful and well-balanced trio of recent American choral works
Dreamcatcher (James McVinnie)
McVinnie’s reputation for bold, imaginative programming is borne out in this compilation alternating contemporary works for organ with some for piano
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