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RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)

In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus

This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'

If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)

Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus

It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)

Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

ALFANO Songs

Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

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