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O Sacrum Convivium

The Messes solennelles by Langlais and Vierne are regular bedfellows on disc. Here Andrew Nethsinga and the Choir of St...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015

Rupert Charlesworth: Nocturnes

Performances at the Aix-en-Provence festival can sometimes stretch to the other side of midnight. This programme began as a recital...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2015

Ascendit deus

Three previous discs from the Choir of Clare College and Graham Ross have covered Advent, Christmas and Passiontide respectively. This...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015

Concert Clemens - Carsten Seyer-Hansen

This CD presents an assortment of favourite pieces from the repertoire of the Danish choir Concert Clemens. The music comes...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2015

WOLF Complete Songs Vol 8

The latest volume in Stone Records’ complete survey of Wolf’s songs follows the same pattern as previous releases: young singers...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2015

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Wolfgang Holzmair’s 1999 recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Imogen Cooper has long been admired for its freshness and expressive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015

SAARIAHO Émilie Suite. Quatre Instants

The major item on this excellent new Ondine release is the suite for soprano and small orchestra (2011) from Kaija...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

Songs and Duets by Henrik and Frederik Rung

‘Rung & Rung’ proclaims the cover of this Danacord issue, boldly if enigmatically. I confess I had never previously heard...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle

The New Chamber Singers is a choir of mostly English-speaking singers based in Rome. There are some two dozen voices...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015

PENDERECKI A Sea of Dreams did Breathe on me

While this colourful orchestral song-cycle from 2010 has in many ways a close relative in the Symphony No 8, Songs...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

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