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Bror Magnus Tødenes: Remembering Jussi

This first recital by a handsome young artist reclaimed from rock‘n’roll by crusading voice teachers will already be a hit...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin

Now in his mid-thirties, Pavol Breslik has made his name primarily as a Mozart and Donizetti tenor. On this showing...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle

There is a theory currently doing the rounds that the original 1863 64 version of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2015

LUTZ Stabat Mater

Bruckner, Poulenc, Villette, Elgar, Perotin, Mendelssohn: none of these composers features on this recording but all are present in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015

LALANDE Leçons De Ténèbres

The Lessons for Tenebrae by Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726) are performed less frequently than those by François Couperin and Charpentier....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

MANTUA Missa Surge Petre. Motets

>It has been fascinating to observe The Brabant Ensemble’s campaign in favour of the many neglected composers of the mid-16th...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem HOUGH Missa Mirabilis

Hard on the heels of Robert Spano’s impressively polished Atlanta account of Dona nobis pacem comes this rival – and,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015

HANDEL Joshua

Comparisons may be odious but sometimes they are impossible to avoid. Laurence Cummings made a live recording of Joshua at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

GRAUPNER Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust

Telemann claimed that while a law student he composed a psalm for St Thomas’s every fortnight. His earliest extant sacred...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

DVOŘÁK Requiem

Just months after I reviewed Antoni Wit’s marvellous 2012 Naxos recording of Dvořák’s Requiem, along comes another excellent recording. This...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015

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