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Les plaisirs du Louvre

The pleasures here are not concerned with the pictures and sculpture of the present-day museum but with musical activity in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020

STRADELLA San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista was composed in 1675 for performance in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome. Although...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte (Roderick Williams)

While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020

RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

PÄRT Stabat Mater (Ross)

This is a focused and absorbing programme, splicing choral works by Pärt with Vasks’s Plainscapes and MacMillan’s Magnificat. It finds...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020

The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry

As a former Swingle Singer and currently artistic director and principal conductor of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020

LEWANDOWSKI 18 Liturgical Psalms

Unfamiliar as I was with the music of Louis Lewandowski (1821 94), the first name that came to mind on...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

HOWELLS Missa Sabrinensis. Michael, ‘A Fanfare Setting’

‘Its proportions are modest in comparison with the Mass in B minor or the Missa solemnis’, wrote The Musical Times...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020

COUPERIN Trois Leçons de Ténèbres GESUALDO Tenebrae Responsories (Tenebrae)

This really does look like two recordings on one disc. The works it presents are so radically different in style,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020

BRAHMS Songs of Loss and Betrayal (Simon Wallfisch)

The title for this album might suggest a mixed recital, picking and choosing songs along the theme from across Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020

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