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Marianne Beate Kielland: Whispering Mozart

Let us get one thing clear. Despite the odd title there is no whispering on this disc. The booklet promises...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2017

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Books 7 & 8

This third and final disc from Les Arts Florissants’ cycle of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi is, in every way, a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2017

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anyone following this Mendelssohn series from the LSO and John Eliot Gardiner will find much to enjoy here: in the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

MAWBY Choral Music

The English Catholic liturgy is far less well served by contemporary composers than its Anglican counterpart. Colin Mawby is a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017

LISZT 15 Songs (Timothy Fallon)

The American tenor Timothy Fallon first came to the attention of UK audiences when he won the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017

HAWES Revelation. Beatitudes. Quanta Qualia

Success is a double-edged sword. Become composer-in-residence of a popular classical radio station, feted by the masses and commissioned by...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

DONIZETTI & MAYR Messa di Gloria and Credo

After hearing Rossini’s Stabat mater, the French writer Théophile Gautier remarked, approvingly, that Italian church music was ‘toujours en fête’....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

DEBUSSY; FAURÉ Fêtes Galantes

The Norwegian mezzo Bettina Smith collaborates here with her compatriot, pianist Einar Røttingen, on a fine if shortish programme of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017

CLÉRAMBAULT Motets à trois voix d’hommes et symphonies

Those steeped in the finest lineages of the French Baroque acknowledge Clérambault as a master of the keyboard and a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH St John Passion (sung in English)

For the past 45 years the benchmark recording of Bach’s St John Passion sung in English has been that conducted...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2017

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