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1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War’

Anonymous 4 are retiring. Not immediately, but the American all-female vocal quartet have announced their decision to go their separate...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015

THUILLE Songs

Champs Hill Records has already given us a set of chamber music by Ludwig Thuille, the talented Munich composer and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

SANDSTRÖM Nordic Mass

For the musically curious with time on their hands, as well as a penchant for superb a cappella singing, this...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015

RASKATOV Monk's Music

Those who attended English National Opera’s production of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and came out both repulsed...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015

RAMEAU Orpheé. Le berger fidèle

Ensemble Amarillis commemorate Rameau with a balanced offering alternating two chamber cantatas and two chamber concertos from Pièces de clavecin...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

PETRASSI Partita. Quattro Inni sacri. Noche oscura. Coro di morti

Following the 2013 release of Petrassi’s Magnificat and Salmo IX° (3/13), Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

MONTEVERDI Marienvesper

To my knowledge this is only the second time a Monteverdi Vespers has fitted on to one CD, which may...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015

MELANI Marienvesper

The Melani clan of Pistoia spawned numerous successful musicians during the 17th century. Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) was the youngest of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

LASSUS Musical Biography Vol 4

This is the fourth instalment in a musical biography of the true Renaissance man among late-Renaissance composers. As with preceding...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

BALFOUR GARDINER Complete Songs

Much of Balfour Gardiner’s music has remained under a bushel for years. Celebrated in church for his bracing anthem, Evening...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015

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