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LUSITANO Motets

This will be a revelation to many. Vicente Lusitano’s name is familiar to specialists of the Renaissance as a key...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW22

KRIGUL Liquid Turns

Hard on the heels of two orchestral pieces performed by the Estonian Festival Orchestra (Alpha, 9/22) – the first review...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22

HAYDN Symphony 103. Theresienmesse

Harry Christophers continues his exploration of Haydn’s late music with a pairing of the penultimate symphony and antepenultimate Mass. The...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

HANDEL Salve Regina (Julie Roset)

Glaring musicological errors proliferate in Ricercar’s booklet note and blurb. The truth is that nobody knows when or why Handel...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22

HANDEL Coronation Anthems

‘A divine surprise’, Hervé Niquet calls this music, going on to imply that he hasn’t encountered Handel’s Coronation Anthems before....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW22

Songs of William Busch

Here’s a welcome follow-up to Lyrita’s own bold coupling (2/08) of those two substantial concertos for piano and cello (premiered...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW22

BRAHMS Lieder (Anna Lucia Richter)

Every Brahms lieder recital is bound to be a new journey into the half-lights of the composer’s psyche. But for...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW22

La Passione: Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven (Christina Landshamer)

The furtive, conspiratorial opening of the Haydn overture promises buffo merriment. Jollity, though, is short-lived. From Haydn’s tragic Scena di...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW22

Evgeny Kissin: The Salzburg Recital

The early post-pandemic concerts enjoyed some of the best and best-behaved audiences. Apart from the collective thirst for live music,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW22

John Robinson: Laus Deo

What better way to mark the half-century celebration of Blackburn Cathedral’s groundbreaking and iconic JW Walker instrument of 1969 than...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW22

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