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SCHUMANN; WIDMANN 'Das heiße Herz'

The last couple of years have offered us some superb new song-cycles on disc – listen to Ruby Hughes singing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2022

MOUTON Missa Faulte d'argent. Motets

Writing nearly 70 years ago, Gustave Reese described Jean Mouton (before 1459-1522) as ‘the most gifted of Josquin’s emulators’, and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2022

MASSENET Songs with Orchestra

Massenet wrote over 300 songs during the course of his career, mostly with piano accompaniment, though he also orchestrated nearly...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2022

KUHNAU Complete Sacred Works, Vols 7 & 8

Disregarded by posterity as merely Bach’s immediate predecessor in Leipzig, Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) was appointed organist at the Thomaskirche in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2022

GRANDI Laetatus sum - Vesper Psalms

Alessandro Grandi – pushed into a distant second place (and quite possibly out of St Mark’s in Venice altogether) by...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2022

DUPARC Complete Songs

Listening to Malcolm Martineau’s album of Duparc’s songs, I was reminded not only how extraordinary they are, but also just...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2022

The Hibernian Muse: Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser

The appointment of Peter Whelan as music director in 2018 has propelled the Irish Baroque Orchestra into an exhilarating new...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2022

CAGE Choral works

There are, I think, two possible approaches to this recording. One is simply to listen through it and let the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2022

BLACKFORD Mirror of Perfection. Vision of A Garden

Richard Blackford definitely has the knack of writing audience-friendly works with singable lines appealing to amateur and professional performers alike....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

BEACH; STANFORD; WOOD 'The Canticle of the Sun'

This splendid album provides a showcase for the talents of 21 singers aged between 18 and 28 brought together for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022

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