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WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder (Joyce DiDonato)
Joyce DiDonato’s performance of ‘Schmerzen’ from the Wesendonck Lieder formed part of her ‘Eden’ album (3/22), a mixed programme crossing...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024
TŮMA Motets. Dixit Dominus. Sinfonia (Válek)
Of the composers who spanned the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of the Classical period in Central Europe,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
SCHÜTZ Schwanengesang (Wilson)
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
CHARPENTIER; DESMAREST Te Deum
The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
CALDARA Gloria RESPIGHI Lauda per la Natività del Signore
Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
BARTÓK Village Scenes JANÁČEK Říkadla STRAVINSKY Les noces
This is a scintillating collection. Les noces may be a work audiences either love or hate (is it a concert...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
JS BACH Cantatas 56 & 82
Two favourite Bach cantatas for bass voice sung by Christoph Prégardien, one of the most respected lyric tenors of his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
JS BACH 'Bach. Vision 1'
Stuttgart’s distinguished Bach credentials in the post war years were largely built on the twin pillars of Karl Münchinger and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2024
CPE BACH Magnificat. Auf, schicke dich. Ammonia fortunata
‘Far more than a mere bridge between the two artistic peaks of the 18th century’ is how I recently described...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
Leon McCawley: Natural Connection - Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World
From most pianists, this sort of grab-bag programme would tend to be a collection of personal favourites, perhaps played from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024
Martin James Bartlett: La Danse
Don’t be fooled by the funky title-lettering on the booklet. The programme of ‘La danse’ is hardly calculated for kicking...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2024
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