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MARTINSSON Into Eternity

Unless one happens to be dealing with Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho or Steve Reich, it’s difficult to suppress the surge...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

LULLY Dies Irae. De Profundis. Te Deum

These three ceremonial grand motets were included in Lully’s publication of assorted Motets à deux choeurs de la Chapelle du...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

LEIFS Edda II: The Lives of the Gods

If Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is the glossed-up, ‘Hollywood’ version of Wotan’s shenanigans, this is the urtext. Eleven years...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

JOSQUIN Adieu mes Amours

Singing self-accompanied on the lute was considered a mark of the true Renaissance gentleman, but the two functions could be...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2019

JOHANNES DE LYMBURGIA Gaude Felix Padua

Johannes de Lymburgia was active in the Veneto around 1430, though presumably born in the Low Countries. His music is...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2019

HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Cummings)

The Passion oratorio Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus is usually nicknamed the Brockes Passion after...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

FINZI Choral Works (Trinity College Cambridge Choir)

What a beautifully crafted disc this is – not just in its quality (and it really is Trinity at their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

BEETHOVEN Christus am Ölberge

Leif Segerstam has become notorious in recent years for giving performances of standard repertoire that rival Celibidache in their pseudo-mystical...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2019

Bach's Family: Choral Motets

The setting of Nun danket alle Gott by Altnickol was once erroneously ascribed to his father-in-law: thus accorded a place...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Stay, ye angels

Recorded live in the church of St Wenceslas in Naumburg, this assortment of four cantatas features its magnificent historic organ...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

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