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Love is Come Again: Music for the Springhead Easter Play

If, like me, you enjoyed the eclectic and beautifully poised Christmas disc ‘Once as I Remember …’ from John Eliot...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2019

TAVENER Angels (Lumsden)

I am finishing this review precisely on what would have been John Tavener’s 75th birthday. Such an anniversary causes one...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2019

SCHUBERT Heimweh Songs (Anna Lucia Richter)

Anna Lucia Richter’s singing of the bittersweet ‘An den Mond’ – gentle, inward, the ornaments gracefully etched – immediately reveals...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

R PANUFNIK Love Abide

If I had to choose a ‘glass-half-full’ contemporary composer, then Roxanna Panufnik would be near the top of my list....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2019

MARTINŮ Songs (Janková, Král, Kahánek)

This deeply touching disc gathers together four sets of Martinů’s songs, both early and late. Two thirds of it is...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

LOEWE Das Sühnopfer des Neuen Bundes (Passion Oratorio)

For all his industry and popular success in the oratorio genre, Carl Loewe is almost exclusively associated outside Germany with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

LEIGHTON; MARTIN Masses for Double Choir

Kenneth Leighton’s and Frank Martin’s Masses begin almost identically, and for a time the similarities between them are so obvious...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

HANDEL Judas Maccabaeus (Cummings)

Granted, Judas Maccabaeus is never likely to be a favourite in Scotland. But Handel’s celebration of ‘Butcher’ Cumberland’s victory over...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral Works

There are just four extant choral works by Maurice Duruflé, which, by good fortune, are easily accommodated on a single...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

DUFAY Lament for Constantinople & other songs

This isn’t the first recording of Dufay’s chansons to appear since the Medieval Ensemble of London’s complete survey nearly 40...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019

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