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VASKS Choral works

For their second disc of Vasks’s choral music on the Finnish Ondine label, the compellingly brilliant Latvian Radio Choir concentrate...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012

R STRAUSS Lieder

Soile Isokoski sings Richard Strauss almost as a singer of the composer’s own time. Recordings of his songs from the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012

SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien

Last year I reviewed this ensemble in Schütz’s Op 1, his only book of madrigals (8/11). My reservations stemmed there...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2012

SCHUMANN Choral Works

Before the First World War rendered all things German anathema, Schumann’s a cappella works, like Mendelssohn’s and Brahms’s, were choral...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012

SCHUBERT Lieder for the Stages of Life

Rather than group their Schubert recital around poets, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here chart a Schubertian ‘Seven ages of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012

NØRHOLM Tablets for Orpheus (Tavole per Orfeo)

Ib Nørholm (b1931) is a prominent Danish composer whose commitment to polystylistics came early and wholeheartedly. He never disavowed the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2012

MOZART Masses

This new recording of Mozart’s ever-popular Coronation Mass appears shortly after one from Tewkesbury Abbey (Delphian, 1/12). Both recordings feature...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012

JANÁČEK Choral Works

This is an attractive selection of Janáček’s vocal pieces, and a wide-ranging one. The Dvořák arrangements were mostly made in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2012

HANSSON Endless Border

Bo Hansson (b1950) is a jazz musician who turned to classical music in mid-career, and whose choral music has met...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:

HANDEL Complete Cantatas Vols 3 & 4

Aminta e Fillide was probably composed for Handel’s principal Roman patron, the Marquis Ruspoli (whose descendent Princess Claudia Ruspoli is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012

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