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SCHÜTZ Schwanengesang (Wilson); Italian Madrigals (Les Arts Florissants / Paul Agnew)

These collections were created 60 years apart at opposite ends of Schütz’s long and distinguished career. His youthful first published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Cyrille Dubois)

After the Gramophone Award-winning success of his superb complete Fauré (Aparté, 8/22), my expectations for this recording by Cyrille Dubois...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024

SCHUBERT ‘Lieder: Love’s Lasting Power’ (Harriet Burns)

Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have emerged as a significant lieder partnership in recent years, though their Schubert album, surprisingly...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

PÄRT 'Tractus'

Arvo Pärt’s Newman-inspired Littlemore Tractus sets the tone for this disc both musically and thematically. As Kai Kutman’s notes point...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2024

MOZART Requiem (Nelson)

Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)

The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024

LUDFORD 'Ymaginacions’

For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024

LANGGAARD Songs (Louise McClelland Jacobsen)

Songs comprise a substantial part of Rued Langgaard’s earlier output, affording an overview of how his music evolved during his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024

HOWARD The Anvil

Emily Howard’s choral work The Anvil was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival in 2019 to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2024

FRANCK Les Béatitudes (Madaras)

Joël-Marie Fauquet’s booklet note for this recording of Les Béatitudes (1879) is a model of its kind, as it does...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024

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