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O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths

Etymologists trace a late fourth-century transition from Jerusalem as the ‘city of peace’ to the ‘vision of peace’ (the term...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2022

Mirabilia Musica: Echoes From Late Medieval Cracow

While Ukraine suffers from an unspeakably murderous invasion, it is good to remember that neighbouring Poland has a fairly rich...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2022

The Covid-19 Sessions

Looking back in years to come, historians will find a musical time-capsule in the releases of the current period: recordings...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2022

WILBY An English Passion According to Saint Matthew

This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2022

SCHÜTZ Historia Nativitatis. David et Salomon

Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris apply their communicative extroversion to Schütz’s settings of texts from the Psalms of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2022

RACHMANINOV Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Excerpts. Putniņš)

While Rachmaninov’s setting of the (Eucharistic) Liturgy is not as well known as his Vigil (the so-called Vespers) – with...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022

MACONCHY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs, Vol 1 (James Geer)

A stimulating release, this, particularly valuable for its focus on the neglected song output of one of Vaughan Williams’s most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022

LIGETI; KODÁLY Lux Aeterna

The works presented here by Kodály are folk inspired, and culminate in a superb rendition of Mátra Pictures. Kodály’s work...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022

FRANCK Complete Songs and Duets

Bru Zane’s first contribution to this year’s Franck bicentenary is this fine survey of his songs, a form with which,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2022

Magdalena Hoffman: Nightscapes for Harp

When my daughter was four or five and having trouble falling asleep, I slipped a lovely Telarc CD by harpist...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

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