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John Matthew Myers: Desiderium

Rarely does a tenor-voice recital succeed while so consciously lacking – perhaps avoiding – the ‘wow’ factor. The programme in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2022

VIVALDI The Great Venetian Mass

‘The Great Venetian Mass’ may look at first like a good old-fashioned liturgical reconstruction of the sort we associate with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Pan's Anniversary

In a letter dated March 6, 1905, Ralph Vaughan Williams accepted a commission from Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club to supply the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2022

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

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