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STRAUSS Song Cycles (Daniel Behle)

The primary claim to fame of Richard Strauss’s Krämerspiegel, the bitingly satirical song-cycle he grudgingly wrote to fulfil a historic...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

RATNIECE Vigilia Del Mattino

Santa Ratniece (b1977) is a Latvian composer who has taken a recognisably Latvian, harmonic aesthetic to the intersection between notated...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

PFITZNER; STRAUSS; WAGNER 'Im Abendrot'

After a Beethoven album with Jan Lisiecki (4/20), baritone Matthias Goerne moves on to work with another of DG’s young...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

PÄRT Miserere (Arman)

No, of course we don’t need another recording of choral music by Arvo Pärt. Or so one might have thought:...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2021

PALESTRINA Missa Papae Marcelli (Beauty Farm)

Beauty Farm have already several recordings to their name, though nothing, I think, as late as Palestrina. Here, the all...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021

MAYR Messa di Gloria (Hauk)

Born near Ingolstadt, halfway between Munich and Nuremberg, Simon Mayr (1763-1845) was largely active in Italy, setting up a music...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

JOSQUIN Septiesme Livre de Chansons

The Septiesme livre de chansons, printed by Susato in 1545, contains 23 songs in five and six voices credited to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

HANCOCK Choral and Organ Music

This exceedingly well-filled disc stands as a resounding testimonial to an important American composer of Episcopalian/Anglican choral music, recorded in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2021

COUPERIN Leçons de ténèbres (Château de Versailles Spectacles)

Recordings of Couperin’s superb Leçons de Ténèbres, setting words from the Lamentations, usually fall into one of two categories: churchy...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021

Jean Rondeau: Melancholy Grace

In September 1878 Brahms wrote to the conductor Bernhard Scholz: ‘I am coming with a large beard! Prepare your wife...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

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