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MOZART Missa Brevis. Regina coeli

Mozart’s Salzburg sacred music is an area into which Naxos hasn’t delved deeply, so this recording of two Missae breves...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013

HALLGRIMSSON Choral Works

This recital consists for the most part of occasional pieces, a series of adieux; the general tenor of the texts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013

GESUALDO Sacrae Cantiones Book II

Part-books were the standard method of printing polyphony in the Renaissance: each publication constituted a set, usually with one voice...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013

FREISLICH Passio Christi

The Polish label Sarton has issued a few volumes exploring Baroque church music associated with Gdan´sk (Danzig). Thuringian composer Johann...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013

ELGAR Choral Works and Part-Songs

Many an aspiring composer today would relish the lucrative market for sheet music afforded by the late 19th and early...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2013

DELIUS Koanga (excerpt). Appalachia. Sea Drift

This is the fifth and last of Danacord’s fine series of ‘Delius Masterworks’. After discs of Danish, Norwegian, English and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2013

CHILCOTT The Seeds of Stars: Choral Music

The challenge to the performers in much of Bob Chilcott’s music is to make it sound warm, expressive and purposeful...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue:

BARRETT Dark Matter

Richard Barrett’s cycle Dark Matter, completed in 2003 and incorporating several pieces for chamber ensemble and voice, is an 80-minute...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2013

COPLAND Quiet City. 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson BARBER Knoxville

Nostalgia, alienation, soulful confession and cool cerebral logic: that’s the cross section of American music presented here, most of it...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2013

JS BACH Motets BWV225-230. Cantatas BWV 118b & 159

Fresh from the high-wire and high jinks of John Eliot Gardiner’s riveting and penetrating account of the Motets comes a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2013

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