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TELEMANN Cantatas (Schneider; Koch)

‘Wherever Bach went, Telemann was there before him.’ If not completely true, Reinhard Goebel’s remark is on the right track....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024

SCHÜTZ Da Pacem (Pierlot)

Though there is nothing wrong with presenting complete sets of Schütz’s monumental publications or large single works, it can be...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2024

RUTTER Visions

John Rutter’s Visions dates from 2016 and received almost immediately an authoritative recording by the original performers – the Temple...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2024

REGER 'Melancholy'

No genre (other than opera) is without its substantial contribution from Reger, and his music for choir is correspondingly extensive....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

PADOVANO Missa A la dolc' ombra. Missa Domine a lingua dolosa

A tale of two Masses, one based on a madrigal, the other on a motet. Cinquecento’s latest release, coupling Annibale...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

OCKEGHEM Complete Songs Vol 2

This completes Blue Heron’s two-disc set of Ockeghem’s complete songs (1/20), coming just four years after the parallel collection from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2024

LA HÈLE Missa Praeter rerum seriem

George de La Hèle (1547‑86) was one of a last wave of composers from the Low Countries to occupy a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2024

KOZLOVZKI Requiem (Graf)

Józef Kozłowski (or Osip Kozlovsky, 1757-1831) was born in Warsaw but gravitated to St Petersburg, where he became music master...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024

HAYDN The Creation (Janowski)

This set preserves a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece from a couple of summers ago. On its own terms,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024

HANDEL 'Freedom - Oratorio Arias' (Oscar Verhaar)

When I was an undergraduate, discussions about Handel’s nationality raged, before attention turned to his sexuality. Both debates are now...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

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