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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs, Vol 2

Recorded at London’s Henry Wood Hall in June of last year, this is the second of four volumes from Albion...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2021

LASSUS Le Nozze in Baviera

The festivities in 1568 for the wedding of Renate of Lorraine to Wilhelm V, heir to the duchy of Bavaria,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2021

HUMFREY Sacred Choral Music

Pelham Humfrey (1647/48 74) is among the better known of the English church music composers associated with Purcell, but that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Cohen)

If Bach’s Brandenburgs reveal the Lutheran Kantor at his most robustly Handelian, the tables are turned in Handel’s sole Passion...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

GUERRERO Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones

This new disc by the Spanish choir El León de Oro of music by Francisco Guerrero (1528 99) joins an...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2021

GESUALDO Madrigali, Libri Terzo & Quarto

After winning last year’s Gramophone Early Music Award, this second instalment in Les Arts Florissants’ Gesualdo series continues to offer...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2021

FREEMAN Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem

Could this be the year when contemporary choral composers such as Alex Freeman, Helena Tulve and Matthew Whittall finally emerge...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

BIBER Requiem (Meunier)

Biber’s F minor Requiem of 1692 has had a decent spray of recordings, with couplings ranging from the composer’s own...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Jacobs)

The sound stage of this studio recording mirrors the unusual stage disposition designed by René Jacobs for the concert tour...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2021

ANDRIESSEN The Only One (Salonen)

A powerful creative force around which so many younger composers gravitated, his recognisable style admired for its ability to shape...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

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