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SAARIAHO Reconnaissance: Choral Music

The death of Kaija Saariaho, so soon after the first London performances of her opera Innocence and the BBC/Barbican ‘Total...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023

PALESTRINA Masses Vol 9 (Christophers)

This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us expected. Poor...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2023

MORALES Missa Mille regretz. Missa Desilde al cavallero

This is the Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis, founded in 2011, as opposed to the older ensembles of the same name...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

MACMILLAN; TAVENER; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Choral works (O’Donnell)

James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Orchestral Songs (Haselböck)

Liszt’s output exists in a state of flux, since many of his works (especially his songs) appear in multiple versions....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2023

LEIGHTON Every Living Creature

This welcome new selection of Kenneth Leighton’s unaccompanied choral music brings a clutch of premiere recordings, none more valuable than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

HAYDN Stabat Mater (1803 version. Jacobs)

Haydn was justifiably proud of his 1767 Stabat mater. Within 15 years it was being performed far and wide, and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

PHILIPS; DERING Motets

The idea of putting Dering and Philips together is obvious enough: two English composers who landed up on the Continental...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

CALDARA; LOTTO; VIVALDI Antonio

Three Antonios – Vivaldi, Caldara and Lotti, all close contemporaries, all pupils of Legrenzi – supply a snapshot of 18th-century...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023

BYRD Mass for Five Voices

Other ensembles have marked the Byrd anniversary with celebratory, large-scale offerings; The Gesualdo Six opt for the five-voice Mass, framed...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

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