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Hollandse Fragmenten: Early Dutch Polyphony

Twelve years ago the group Capilla Flamenca, under the late and much-lamented Dirk Snellings, produced a marvellous CD of music...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

James Geer: Dreams Melting

Most names here will be familiar to those who know mid-20th-century music in the UK but not necessarily as art-song...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2021

And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide

It’s an evocative title, and the music to go with this Passiontide programme by New York Polyphony is just as...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021

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

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