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STRIGGIO Mass for 40 and 60 voices

I Fagiolini’s disc of Striggio’s works for 40 voices (on which the Mass Ecco sì beato giorno was given its...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012

SCHNITTKE 12 Bussverse. Stimmen der Natur

In his 1968 essay ‘Choral Music and False Consciousness’, Theodor Adorno declared that ‘the conviviality of the choir engenders an...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2012

POULENC Vocal Music

The Danish National Vocal Ensemble face some pretty stiff competition with this disc of unaccompanied Poulenc but they do not...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2012

LASSUS Biographie musicale Vol 1

Lassus’s biography certainly lends itself to the multi-volume series promised here: there’s incident, truculence, pathos at the end, and a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012

HOWELLS Requiem

Will only male choirs do for Howells’s sacred music? So previous commentators have insisted, though only the most rigid epigone...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012

HANDEL Esther (Cannons Version 1720)

Somewhere between a masque and a fully fledged oratorio, Esther is a problematic work. John Arbuthnot’s adaptation of Racine’s play...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2012

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius. Cello Concerto

During the autumn of 2008, Vladimir Ashkenazy devised a three-week Elgar festival with the Sydney SO, culminating in two performances...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2012

DOVE The Passing of the Year

The Convivium Singers are a 30-strong mixed-voice group, formed in 2009, youthfully fresh-toned and evenly balanced. They tackle Dove’s distinctive...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012

DELIUS Songs of Sunset. 3 Songs. North Country Sketches

Delius had a lifelong devotion to Scandinavia and Scandinavian music, so it is apt that this issue should offer versions...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012

DEBUSSY Songs Vol 2

Ranging from the early (but later revised) Verlaine settings in Fêtes galantes to the Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012

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