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Leningrad Choir Concertos

While not an exclusively Russian phenomenon, the choir concerto flourished there during the 18th and early 19th centuries – reaching...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019

Japan: Works for Choir

Each new album in this series has brought epiphanies. Juxtapositions of Verdi with Scelsi, Debussy with Aperghis and Barber with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

Free America: Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion

As the New Union that was America strove to establish itself towards the end of the 1700s, music had a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2019

Air Music: Tales of Flying Creatures and Heavenly Breezes

This third instalment in Capella de la Torre’s series of the four elements is every bit as fresh and thoughtful...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

Ed Lyon: 17th Century Playlist

It’s a lovely concept – an album of the 17th century’s greatest hits, where only the catchiest, most irrepressibly infectious...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2019

WEIR Airs from another Planet: Chamber music and songs

From the start of Nuits d’Afrique, the flute weaves its sensuous lines around the soprano voice and echoes of Ravel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2019

SMYTH Mass in D. Overture to 'The Wreckers'

When John Steane reviewed Philip Brunelle’s Virgin Classics recording of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D (1891, rev 1925) in August...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

PENALOSA Lamentationes

It’s wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa (1470-1528), and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

PALESTRINA Vol 8 (The Sixteen)

The liturgical moment of the Eucharist dominates this new helping of Palestrina (much of it for eight voices): it accounts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2019

LISZT Three Petrarch Sonnets (Andrè Schuen & Daniel Heide)

This recital marks the start of a new survey of Liszt’s complete songs from the Weimar-based pianist Daniel Heide. With...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019

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