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MANTUA Missa Surge Petre. Motets

>It has been fascinating to observe The Brabant Ensemble’s campaign in favour of the many neglected composers of the mid-16th...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem HOUGH Missa Mirabilis

Hard on the heels of Robert Spano’s impressively polished Atlanta account of Dona nobis pacem comes this rival – and,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015

HANDEL Joshua

Comparisons may be odious but sometimes they are impossible to avoid. Laurence Cummings made a live recording of Joshua at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

GRAUPNER Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust

Telemann claimed that while a law student he composed a psalm for St Thomas’s every fortnight. His earliest extant sacred...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

DVOŘÁK Requiem

Just months after I reviewed Antoni Wit’s marvellous 2012 Naxos recording of Dvořák’s Requiem, along comes another excellent recording. This...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015

CHILCOTT St John Passion

Bob Chilcott’s compact St John Passion follows in outline Bach’s work. It opens powerfully: the chorus proclaim Christ as saviour...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2015

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

At just over an hour, this excellent performance is some 12 minutes shorter than recent issues under Tennstedt (BBC Legends)...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH; SANDSTRÖM Motets

It takes a brave composer to go up against Bach, and despite the best attempts of Jan-Geert Wolff’s elegant booklet-notes...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

The elements constituting an unforgettable Bach Passion journey are always splendidly elusive. Lindsay Kemp wrote that the Academy of Ancient...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

The St Matthew Passion was probably first performed in 1727 but the music we usually hear is from Bach’s revised...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

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