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PALESTRINA Missa Papae Marcelli (Beauty Farm)

Beauty Farm have already several recordings to their name, though nothing, I think, as late as Palestrina. Here, the all...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021

MAYR Messa di Gloria (Hauk)

Born near Ingolstadt, halfway between Munich and Nuremberg, Simon Mayr (1763-1845) was largely active in Italy, setting up a music...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

JOSQUIN Septiesme Livre de Chansons

The Septiesme livre de chansons, printed by Susato in 1545, contains 23 songs in five and six voices credited to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

HANCOCK Choral and Organ Music

This exceedingly well-filled disc stands as a resounding testimonial to an important American composer of Episcopalian/Anglican choral music, recorded in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2021

COUPERIN Leçons de ténèbres (Château de Versailles Spectacles)

Recordings of Couperin’s superb Leçons de Ténèbres, setting words from the Lamentations, usually fall into one of two categories: churchy...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021

Jean Rondeau: Melancholy Grace

In September 1878 Brahms wrote to the conductor Bernhard Scholz: ‘I am coming with a large beard! Prepare your wife...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

Justin Taylor: La famille Rameau

The prodigiously talented Franco-American harpsichordist Justin Taylor follows a critically acclaimed earlier album devoted to the Forqueray family (11/16) with...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2021

Craig Ogden in Concert

It’s been far too long since I last heard my fellow West Australian Craig Odgen live in concert. So this...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2021

VLADIGEROV Exotic preludes & Impressions (Nadejda Vlaeva)

Slowly but surely, the great Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov’s sizeable output of piano works is finally getting serious attention on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2021

MEDTNER Piano works, Vol 1 (Frank Huang)

Frank Huang first caught my attention through his 2017 Centaur release devoted to the jazzily inventive piano music of Jack...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2021

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