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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

Robin Tritschler: The songs of Brahms Vol 9

For the ninth volume of his Brahms series, Graham Johnson is joined by Robin Tritschler – the third tenor to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Gielen)

This is the fourth Gielen-directed Missa solemnis to appear on record; not the most recent – a Capriccio release of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Cleobury)

The death of Stephen Cleobury last November, seven months after he had ended his 37 years as Music Director of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2020

VINE Aphorisms

It seems short-sighted for an emerging piano talent such as Lindsay Garritson to bring out a new CD without including...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

MORAVEC Sanctuary Road

The subject of Paul Moravec’s oratorio Sanctuary Road is William Still (1821-1902), one of the main activists running the Underground...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

LENTZ Ending(s)

There’s no need to pigeonhole Daniel Lentz’s compositional aesthetic. He has traversed an array of styles throughout his productive career,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2020

Brahms in Transcription (Uriel Tsachor)

During December 1914 and January 1915 Max Reger transcribed five Brahms symphonic slow movements for solo piano, which he deemed...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

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