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MOZART Mass No 17, Missa Solemnis

This is the latest in a small flurry of Mozart Mass recordings with boy trebles. However, rather than tape the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2012

MOUTON Missa Tu es Petrus

One of the most satisfying things about watching and listening to the Brabant Ensemble evolve over the last decade has...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012

MONETVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale Vol 2

Selva morale e spirituale (Venice, 1641) is Monteverdi’s largest publication of diverse sacred compositions. Only a few artists have recorded...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2012

MARTINES Il Primo Amore

Marianna Martines: a Spanish surname, but her father had moved from Naples to Vienna, where he was in the service...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012

HANDEL Alceste

Covent Garden director John Rich evidently overreached himself when, in 1749, he planned Alceste – play by Tobias Smollett, modelled...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012

DUBOIS Paradise Lost

The sheer standard of late-19th-century prize-winning French music re-emerging on record under the auspices of Venice’s Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2012

Carmelite Vespers 1709

In the 1980s there was a fashion for constructing Handel’s Italian-period church music into a so-called ‘Carmelite Vespers’, such as...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2012

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri

This is the 16th version of Membra Jesu nostri (1680) to have come my way on CD, which must make...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2012

T-L BOURGEOIS Les Sirènes and other cantatas

‘Who he?’ you may well ask of Thomas-Louis Bourgeois (1676-1750), a name known only the most avid of French Baroque...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012

BLACKBURN Ghostly Psalms. Duluth Harbor Serenade

Everyone likes a composer with an unusual back story, and Philip Blackburn’s is more unusual than most. Born in Cambridge...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2012

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