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Review of MONTEVERDI Vespro della beata Vergine 1610

MONTEVERDI Vespro della beata Vergine 1610

This is in many ways a ‘traditional’ Monteverdi Vespers, carrying little in the way of musicological baggage. Performed in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

Review of MAHLER Lieder

MAHLER Lieder

This recital takes us through 25 years of Mahler’s composing life, from the Frühe Lieder to the Rückert Lieder. Not...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

Review of KYR The Cloud of Unknowing. Songs of the Soul

KYR The Cloud of Unknowing. Songs of the Soul

Robert Kyr (b1952) represents a curious phenomenon: a composer just now achieving mainstream recognition after a long, productive creative life...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

Review of KEISER Brockes-Passion

KEISER Brockes-Passion

Intrepid admirers of Baroque sacred music will probably know something about Handel’s so-called Brockes Passion (c1716), and there have also...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014

Review of DESPREZ Missa Ave maris stella

DESPREZ Missa Ave maris stella

As one of his most perfect works, Josquin’s Mass Ave maris stella is now available in a wide range of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2014

Review of JENKINS Motets

JENKINS Motets

When John Rutter composed The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol for the second volume of Carols for Choirs back in 1967, he...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014

Review of HANDEL The Triumph of Time and Truth

HANDEL The Triumph of Time and Truth

It is misleading to rank The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) as Handel’s last English oratorio. Unlike Jephtha (1752),...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014

Review of GRUNDMAN The Resurrection of Christ

GRUNDMAN The Resurrection of Christ

His classical credentials might be impeccable but Jorge Grundman (b1961) is best known for his research into acoustics and technology...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014

Review of DICKINSON The Judas Tree

DICKINSON The Judas Tree

<p>Peter...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014

Review of BRUCKNER Mass No 3

BRUCKNER Mass No 3

Performances on disc remain relatively rare, and I wish I could greet this new recording of Bruckner’s Mass No 3...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014


 

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