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The Call of Rome (The Sixteen)

When you think of Roman polyphony you think of balance, order, elegance. Not for Rome’s composers the rougher textures and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

THEILE St Matthew Passion (Cordes)

The Passion settings of Schütz, from around 1666, still follow the example of Victoria and the polyphonists in setting the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

STRAUSS; WAGNER Songs (Gerhard Siegel)

Anyone who’s heard Gerhard Siegel live will know that he’s a formidable performer, and in Wagner’s Ring a Mime who...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine (Pichon)

I’m never quite sure who buys classical concert DVDs; one viewing is usually enough, I would have thought, especially if...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2020

MONIUSZKO Milda. Nijoła

These are the very first recordings on CD of two cantatas by Moniuszko on themes taken from part of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2020

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater (Rousset)

A final example of Bach’s insatiable appetite for critiquing fresh musical worlds occurred when the composer arranged Pergolesi’s Stabat mater...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared

It’s been a good year for Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared. First came Nicky Spence’s superb new account...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

ESQUIVEL Missa Hortus conclusus & other works

Juan Esquivel (c1560 before 1630) is another Spanish 16th-century polyphonist thus far denied the attention he deserves on record. First...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020

EŠENVALDS Translations

For those seeking comfort and an escape from the manifold stresses and uncertainties currently facing mankind, there will be much...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2020

Singing in Secret: Clandestine Catholic Music by William Byrd

Byrd’s Four-Voice Mass is coupled with the Propers for All Saints in this well-conceived programme, which imagines one of those...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2020

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