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SØRENSEN St Matthew Passion

Patior – to suffer: that’s the verb at the root of any Passion. Bach’s settings put suffering front and centre,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2023

SCHNITTKE Psalms of Repentance

Schnittke’s set of Psalms of Repentance (‘Verses of Repentance’ is a more accurate translation) is some of the most challenging...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2023

PUCCINI Messa di Gloria (Gimeno)

Few would argue that Puccini’s Messa a quattro voci con orchestra (more commonly known as the Messa di Gloria) is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2023

MOZART Requiem (Savall)

Jordi Savall has recorded Mozart’s Requiem before, in 1991, when everybody and his dog was doing so. That recording wasn’t...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Piotr Beczala. Christian Gerhaher)

Nearly a decade after his last Mahler album – his Gramophone Award-winning collection of orchestral songs (6/15) – Christian Gerhaher...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2023

MACONCHY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs Volume 2 (James Geer)

Three cheers for this valuable second helping of songs by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 94) courtesy of those adventurous folk at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2023

GUÐMUNDSSON The Gospel of Mary

Following Sono Luminus’s recording of chamber works by Hugi Gðumundsson (1/23), Dacapo brings us the Icelandic composer’s oratorio The Gospel...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2023

CRANE Natural World

Is it too soon to call a work ‘classic Crane’? Well, I’m going to go ahead and say that Natural...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2023

CHESNOKOV Sacred Choral Music

The music of Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) is well known in the Orthodox choral world but far less well outside it....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2023

BRUCKNER Motets (St Albans Cathedral Choir)

Complete recorded collections of Bruckner’s motets are not as common as one might expect. For a start they require a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2023

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