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RACHMANINOV Vespers

It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014

A Purcell Collection

Voces8 here make use of their intermediate size – neither a choir nor strictly a one-to-a part ensemble – to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

A & G MAHLER Lieder

Glasgow-based Linn Records continues to do well by its Scottish artists. As anybody who has heard Karen Cargill in 19th-century...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014

HANDEL Duetti da Camera

Last year, the soprano Robert Invernizzi joined forces with the mighty mezzo Sonia Prina for a disc of Baroque duetti...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014

DESENCLOS Requiem. POULENC Litanies à la Vierge noire

About two-thirds of this excellent disc is devoted to music by Alfred Desenclos, about whom not much seems to be...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

COOPER Silver Threads

Jacob Cooper has a simple and logical explanation for why his song-cycle Silver Threads is set for electronics and voice,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

A fine-sounding, sensitively paced German Requiem with good, fairly chaste choral singing and an especially impressive baritone in Thomas E...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH mass in B minor

There is a natural attraction in a live performance of Bach’s choral masterpiece made in the church where he worked...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Leipzig Cantatas

These four cantatas all come from the first year of Bach’s time in Leipzig, during which he had just started...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

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