Arvo Pärt: Tractus (Tönu Klajuste)
The vocal works seem to transcend speech, while the orchestral pieces clearly articulate their source texts
Reviews
Apollo5: Haven
Some of the most insightfully earthy singing of Byrd (the Mass for Five Voices) you’re likely to hear
Ola Gjeilo: Dreamweaver
The Holloway singers don’t go sad-sack on it but simply and subtly temper their delivery
Organ Music of Pierre Kunc – French composer and organist (Damin Spritzer)
Damin Spritzer, as usual, plays this unknown repertoire with a impressive sense of devotion and attention to detail
Liszt: Piano works, arranged for Organ (Diederik Blankesteijn)
The music translates extremely well to the sonorous Bätz organ in the generous acoustic of Utrecht’s Domkirk
J.S. Bach: Complete Organ Works
An outstanding testament to one of the more remarkable European organists of the last 40 years
Mozart: Mass in C minor (ed. Kemme); C.P.E. Bach: Heilig ist Gott
The Dunedin Consort present ‘a superb account’ of Mozart’s Mass in C minor under the direction of John Butt
Parry: Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’; Blest Pair of Sirens
A lesser known work brought back to life
Divins mystères – Organ discoveries: Berkeley and Caumont manuscripts
The Chapelle Royale’s generous acoustics are wonderfully captured on this recording
Bach: Complete Organ Works vol.10, alternative versions
The culmination of one of the finest 'complete' Bach organ works
César Franck: Organ Works
Jarosław Tarnawski’s plan to record Franck’s most significant works on organs of appropriate age finds perfect voice in the Cavaillé-Coll of Saint-François-de-Sales, Lyon
John Sheppard: Missa Cantate
Captivating vistas of the six-voice Missa Cantate appear alongside stunningly inventive examples of chant-based responsories, hymns and votive antiphons
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