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Benjamin Grosvenor: Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor’s selection, simply entitled ‘Dances’, is lovingly planned rather than random. Ranging from Bach to Morton Gould, there are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

Canticles from St Paul's

‘Canticles from St Paul’s’ features five settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, with music from the service of Matins...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2014

Motets Français

With French a cappella repertory already disappearingly small, that this disc limits its programme to music written for upper voices...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

The Leiden Choirbooks Vol 4

This is the fourth double-CD of this ambitious project, of which each instalment explores the contents of one of a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014

A Quattro Cori: Music for 16 Voices

The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

A Quattro Cori: Music for 16 Voices

The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

WESTBROOK Glad Day Live

Every time Mike Westbrook records Glad Day – his much loved settings of William Blake for two solo voices, choir...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

SPOHR The Fall of Babylon

Some works don’t define their era but merely recall it. So listeners would have to be rather fascinated by the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Though Schubert’s great song-cycle has had its day with period instruments, this recording has some differences that allow it to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

PERGAMENT The Jewish Song

Moses Pergament (1893-1977) has been described as ‘one of the best-kept secrets of Swedish music’, although he was born in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

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