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Songs of Springtime

The 20 tracks on this secular Anglo-Irish part-song anthology provided the perfect aural backdrop to the patches of snowdrops and...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2013

Refractions: Choral Works by Valen, Berg, Messiaen & Webern

This intriguing compilation contrasts the music of three composers with strong Germanic connections, all born in the 1880s, with works...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2013

Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly

This monumental collection is a celebration of the life and impact of Erasmus, visionary of the global village ahead of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2013

Anna Prohaska: Enchanted Forest - Baroque Arias

Thank you, Anna Prohaska, for not doing a Handel or Vivaldi arias disc; I am with my colleague David Vickers...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013

Alleluia

Belying the stereotyped image of Russian sopranos, the 23-year-old Julia Lezhneva fields a voice of bell-like purity, even throughout its...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

Folk Stories: Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler

Somewhere between the promising inception of this project and the final disc, significant elements have been lost. In her booklet-notes,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2013

Il Tesoro di San Gennaro

Atoning for their recent offering of bawdy Neapolitan cantatas, I Turchini here do penance in music associated with the chapel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

PERGOLESI Septem verba a Christo

The authorship of Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata has been disputed for more than a century. There...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2013

PALESTRINA Missa Ad coenam Agni. Missa Regina Caeli

Most claims of ‘first recording’ status don’t stand up to scrutiny, so it’s wise of Hyperion and Coro not to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2013

MCCABE Visions

Instrumental music is John McCabe’s usual stamping ground but over the years he has produced a fair crop of choral...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2013

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