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Review of Hymns from Merton

Hymns from Merton

As fewer young people are exposed to the treasures of Anglican hymnody and a number of misguided senior clergy seem...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024

Review of Harmonies of Devotion

Harmonies of Devotion

This Venetian Baroque programme is a departure for Contrapunctus – discographically at least. It views the Italian Baroque through the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024

Review of The Leuven Chansonnier Vol.3 & 4: Le Cueur vous demeure

The Leuven Chansonnier Vol.3 & 4: Le Cueur vous demeure

It is common knowledge that the Sollazzo Ensemble that was awarded the contract for recording the entire Leuven Chansonnier on...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2024

Review of Au douz tens nouvel: Chansons de trouveres

Au douz tens nouvel: Chansons de trouveres

The start of this recital promises something bracingly ahistorical: the aeolian wind and unpitched instrumental sounds might have come straight...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024

Review of VIADANA Sacri concentus

VIADANA Sacri concentus

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s groundbreaking Cento Concerti ecclesiastici (Venice, 1602) was the first publication of sacred music to include mandatory...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2024

Review of CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works

CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works

Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024

Review of M BERKELEY Collaborations

M BERKELEY Collaborations

Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley (76 years...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

Review of Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)

Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)

Recorded in the Salle Colonne, Paris, in 2021, Aurélien Pontier’s album is ‘an act of homage to the Vienna of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

Review of Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings

Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings

Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge – two names which I suspect will be unfamiliar to many readers. Almost exact...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

Review of Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)

Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)

Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen covers much of the same ground in this album of keyboard works by the English virginalists...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024

 

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