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Ghirlanda Sacra Venezia, 1625

‘Ghirlanda Sacra’ (Venice, 1625) is an anthology of 44 motets for solo voice and basso continuo compiled by Leonardo Simonetti,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013

Down By the Sea

Blossom Street was founded at York University in 2003 before gravitating to London. The ensemble’s second disc for Naxos, a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013

WOLF Complete Songs Vols 5 & 6

The quality of sound in these latest discs in Stone’s Wolf series is wonderfully vivid and full of presence. As...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013

SCHUBERT Winterreise

‘A weary traveller, very much in six-league boots’ was the late Alan Blyth’s less than euphoric verdict on Kurt Moll’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2013

RAUTAVAARA Missa a cappella

The Missa a cappella (2011) is Rautavaara’s most recent choral work of any size yet is built around his Credo...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013

PALESTRINA Cantica Salomonis

Palestrina’s 29 settings from the Song of Songs, though published as a collection of motets, are better described as sacred...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2013

MONTEVERDI Heaven and Earth

Given the impressive cast involved, this anthology is in a sense self-recommending. Not only does Robert King’s selection include some...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2013

HANDEL Oratorio Arias

A minority of Handel recitals crash at the first hurdle, like this collection of so-called ‘Oratorio Arias’. Half of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013

GUAN XIA Earth Requiem

The Chinese symphonic tradition dates back only to the late 1920s, while chamber music is an even more recent phenomenon,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2013

BRUCKNER Mass No 3

Bruckner’s monumental third Mass setting, in F minor, is justifiably known as the ‘Great Mass’. With a duration of over...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2013

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