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SIBELIUS Kullervo (Dausgaard)

Set down hard on the heels of an acclaimed concert performance in Glasgow during May 2018, Thomas Dausgaard’s new recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

SCHÜTZ Cantiones sacrae 1625, SWV53-93

Schütz’s Cantiones sacrae (1625) is not the easiest collection to situate within his output. The combination of Latin texts, consistently...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Williams & Burnside)

After giving us Winter Journey last year (Signum, 5/18), Roderick Williams now turns to Schubert’s great song-cycles in their original...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019

SCARLATTI Quella pace gradita: The Recorder and Violin Cantatas

Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense output includes a staggering number of chamber cantatas, nearly 800 in all, most of them for solo...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

PRAETORIUS Motets

The music of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) is clearly influenced by Giovanni Gabrielli and the Venetian polychoral style which flourished at...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2019

L MOZART Missa solemnis (De Marchi)

Respect for Leopold Mozart seems often to be given grudgingly. His achievements include a major treatise on violin-playing and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

MACMILLAN One Equal Music

Large-scale choral works by James MacMillan, such as his early Seven Last Words from the Cross or the more recent...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019

LANDINI L’Occhio del Cor

With over 20 CDs of medieval music to their name, the (Italian) group La Reverdie are certainly well placed to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2019

HOWELLS An English Mass. Cello Concerto

Commissioned for the 1977 Leith Hill Festival, Howells’s orchestration of the towering Te Deum that he wrote in 1944 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor (Aaron Sheehan)

This is the third recital devoted to John Beard, the singer for whom Handel wrote almost every significant tenor role...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

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