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Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs

Amid a clutch of floral favourites – say, Purcell’s ‘Sweeter than roses’ (in Britten’s flamboyant arrangement), Schumann’s ‘Jasminenstrauch’ and Fauré’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol 7

Unlike the earlier mix-and-match releases in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey, this disc consists entirely of less popular works, opening with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015

RICHTER Requiem. Sinfonia. De profundis

The Moravian-born composer Franz Xaver Richter (1709 89) is one of those ‘pre-Classical’ figures whose music is written about more...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Vespers

The commercial recording history of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil stretches back only 50 years, with at least three outstanding versions having...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015

MAYR Jacob a Labano fugiens (Jacob’s Flight from Laban)

Simon Mayr (1763 1845) had a dependability that kept him immune to the inspirational ups and downs and empty note-spinning...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015

MARTIN Jubilate Deo

The music of Matthew Martin (b1976) is haunted by the spirits of British composers who died while he was in...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015

MARENZIO Quinto libro di madrigali

Marenzio’s Quinto libro di madrigali a sei voci (1591) was dedicated to his Roman patron Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

LEIGHTON Missa Brevis. Cucifixus pro nobis

Kenneth Leighton’s remarkably consistent musical style means that his characteristic traits, such as extensive use of chromaticism and syncopation, plus...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015

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

LA COUR Works for Choir and Organ

Listening to this disc gives you the impression that Niels la Cour is a composer who writes with an earnest...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015

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