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BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri (Vocal Collector)

Little is known about the origins of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri. It is cast as a cycle of seven cantatas...

Reviewed in issue 07/2019

Elīna Garanča: Sol y vida

So it’s vacation time for the Latvian mezzo. Sun, sea and seduction. True love may never run smooth but it...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2019

Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria

One of the outstanding composers of the mid-15th century, Walter Frye holds a special place in The Binchois Consort’s repertory....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019

Locus iste

As the title suggests, the latest recording from St John’s College, Cambridge, is all about the spirit of place. This...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

LEONARDO DA VINCI La Musique Secrète

LEONARDO DA VINCI La Musique Secrète...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2019

Magdalena Kožená: Il Giardino dei Sospiri

Magdalena Kožená may be moving forwards in her latest album – her second with Pentatone – but she’s also looking...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

ZELENKA Missa Omnium Sanctorum

Zelenka’s Missa Omnium sanctorum dates from 1741. His last choral work, it was the third in a projected, albeit unfinished...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

Supersize Polyphony

The link between Striggio’s 40 part motet and Tallis’s Spem in alium had long been known before Davitt Moroney identified...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019

R & C SCHUMANN Dichterliebe (Julian Prégardien)

Like any conscientious artist, Julian Prégardien has taken a highly personal journey into Dichterliebe, and shares it with the listener...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2019

SCHUMANN Liederkreis. Kernerlieder (Goerne)

'Short, maliciously sentimental, and written in the folk style’ was Schumann’s apt verdict on the pithy verses of Heine’s Buch...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019

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