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SIBELIUS Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island)

My favourite collection of Sibelius choruses is ‘Songs for Male Voice Choir’, peerless singing by YL (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat – the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

SCHUMANN Missa Sacra

Schumann’s choral music is perhaps the most neglected section of this most – often wilfully – misunderstood composer’s output. It’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2013

RUTTER The Tewkesbury Collection

This CD is a valuable addition to the John Rutter discography and shows that the composer is more than simply...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2013

MENDELSSOHN; MÄNTYJÄRVI Psalms

One result of Mendelssohn’s bicentenary in 2009 was a commission by Stuttgart’s International Bach Academy to the Finnish composer Jaakko...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

MACMILLAN Missa Dunelmi

James MacMillan’s brief unaccompanied Mass for Durham Cathedral is here surrounded by a motley selection of carols, motets, anthems and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013

HANDEL Messiah

Now that Tafelmusik has started up its own label, hopefully the Canadian period-instrument orchestra will return to recording new projects...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013

GREENE Spenser’s Amoretti

The songs of Maurice Greene are not exactly well known, any more than are most English art-songs from Handel’s time....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

GABRIELI Sacred Symphonies

As far as one can tell, the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli’s death seems not to have attracted much attention,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

Partsongs by Frederick Delius & John Ireland

Apart from as a composer (and writer), it has been a while since Paul Spicer’s last published outing. That was,...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013

Jesu Amantissime

Though one of the more talented and important figures of the French mid-Baroque, André Campra has never quite broken through...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

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