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Salvator Mundi: The Purcell Legacy

For the inaugural release on their own label, the University of St Andrews offer a programme of English church music...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2015

Planctus: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

Marking the 500th anniversary of the Council of Constance (1414-18), which ended the Papal Schism, this fascinating new programme of...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2015

I have set my heart so hy

The Dufay Collective have been around for 25 years, generally focusing on the more folksy aspects of medieval music; William...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2015

Cantar de Amor

As the booklet-notes for this engaging disc point out, opera didn’t really catch on in 17th-century Spain, despite the efforts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2015

WEIR Storm

Vocal – particularly choral – music has been a strong and persistent thread through Judith Weir’s output from the start...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015

TOMÁŠEK Songs

In 1816 Goethe received a package from Vienna containing a volume of songs by the young Franz Schubert. The Weimar...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015

STEINBERG Passion Week RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Chants

This important and exciting release from the Portland, Oregon-based 26-strong chamber choir is a notable successor to their ‘Good Friday...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2015

SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder

This new Gurrelieder, a follow-up in some ways to Hyperion’s well-received disc of Strauss tone-poems with the Gürzenich Orchestra (5/13),...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

H, J & M PRAETORIUS Vocal Works

The young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has established himself as one to watch in a series of impressive performances, recordings...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2015

PÄRT Babel

The origins of the Innsbruck-based Wilten Boys’ Choir stretch back to the 13th century. Their director since 1991 has been...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2015

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