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POTT At First Light

Every now and then you hear a new work and feel that excitement, the knowledge that here is a piece...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater CALDARA Maddalena Ai Piedi di Cristo (Naessens)

After the dazzling assurance of Les Talens Lyriques’ recent recording under Christophe Rousset (with the tautly blended pair of Sandrine...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2020

PENDERECKI St Luke Passion (Nagano)

The voices of the Warsaw Boys’ Choir and the Kraków Philharmonic Choir draw the listener immediately into this recording of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2020

PÄRT Stabat Mater (Ross)

Peace Upon You, Jerusalem is Arvo Pärt’s take on I was glad. Celebration is made manifest not via gleaming D...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

NIELSEN The Mother

A hundred years ago, as part of the post-war settlement, Southern Jutland (otherwise known as North Schleswig) returned to Denmark...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2020

MOZART Mass in C minor (Minkowski)

Among all his sacred works, Mozart’s grand C minor Mass is perhaps the most challenging for performers. By some way...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020

HANDEL Messiah (Rademann)

Gaechinger Cantorey and Hans-Christoph Rademann endeavour to present the version of Messiah that Handel directed at its premiere in Dublin...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2020

HAMILTON Joy

Ergodos has in recent years become an essential platform for new music. An independent label founded by the Irish composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020

Those Blue Remembered Hills

Caught at the junction of folk-earthiness and blue remembered sentiment, Ivor Gurney’s music has dated more markedly than that of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

FINNISSY Pious Anthems & Voluntaries

This project originates in a residency of several years the composer undertook at St John’s College, Cambridge. At its heart...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2020

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