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English Royal Funeral Music

So here they are again – last year’s Gramophone Recording of the Year winners back with a new disc, parts...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2013

Choirs of Angels: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol 2

It may have been preferable to widen the net for the second volume of music from the Eton Choirbook (all...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013

Black Manhattan Vol 2

All the music documented on this second instalment of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra’s ‘Black Manhattan’ was written before Louis Armstrong...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

SCHUBERT Winterreise D911

Such diametrically opposed Winterreise performances here. In his second recording of the piece, Wolfgang Holzmair has an insider’s long experience...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013

SCHUBERT Lieder & Vocal Quartets

Schubert once reportedly remarked to a friend: ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ If he did utter these...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2013

ROSSINI Petite Messe solennelle

This is not, strictly speaking, a recording of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle. In 1867 the composer orchestrated the work, not...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2013

P PHILIPS Cantiones sacrae octonis vocibus

The Elizabethan Peter Philips has garnered a respectable discography over the last 20 years. His motet collection for double choir,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2013

OCKEGHEM Missa prolationum

Even by the standards we normally expect of Ockeghem, the Missa Prolationum is at first glance craggy and uninviting; but...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2013

NǾRGǺRD Songs from Evening Land

Helene Gjerris has been singing Per Nørgård’s songs for more than 25 years and this disc is the fruit of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2013

MARTIN Conte de Cendrillon, Le

This 2010 studio recording of Frank Martin’s ballet Cinderella is marketed by Claves as a period piece, with prominent photographs...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2013

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