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JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'

If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)

Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus

It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)

Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

ALFANO Songs

Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation

These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024

Eternity

This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024

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