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Angele Dei: New Latvian Choral Music

With six composers and the Latvian Radio Choir, Skani offers us a ‘time stamp’ of the state of new Latvian...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2024

Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas’s achievements as a composer have often fallen under the radar when measured against his many successes on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024

STRAUSS 'Tag und Nacht' (Kateřina Kněžíková)

Some three years after I gave a warm welcome to Kateřina Kněžíková‘s superb first solo album on Supraphon – a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

STANFORD Te Deum. Elegiac Ode

Completed in January 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and first given at the following year’s Leeds Festival, Stanford’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2024

Scaramella: Obrecht, Fitch, Brumel, Agricola

Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella has a bizarre history. We have only two of its original four voice-parts, known from an apparently...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

FUTRELL Stabat mater. Brittle Fluid. Vuggesang

Currently nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize (previous winners include Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you and Per...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024

CAMPRA Messe de Requiem

André Campra may be one of the key French opera composers between Lully and Rameau but I suspect at the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW2024

BYRD The Great Service. English Anthems

The novelty of this take on Byrd’s longest and grandest work is that David Skinner and the singers of Alamire...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

BENEVOLI Missa Benevola

Mark Seow waxed ecstatic about the first volume of I Fagiolini’s Benevoli series (A/23), which continues with a Mass for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Arias for Alto (Zoltan Darago)

Bach wrote some of his best music for the alto voice. In ‘Erbarme dich’ from the St Matthew Passion and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2024

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