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ZELENKA Missa Omnium Sanctorum

Zelenka’s Missa Omnium sanctorum dates from 1741. His last choral work, it was the third in a projected, albeit unfinished...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

Supersize Polyphony

The link between Striggio’s 40 part motet and Tallis’s Spem in alium had long been known before Davitt Moroney identified...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019

R & C SCHUMANN Dichterliebe (Julian Prégardien)

Like any conscientious artist, Julian Prégardien has taken a highly personal journey into Dichterliebe, and shares it with the listener...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2019

SCHUMANN Liederkreis. Kernerlieder (Goerne)

'Short, maliciously sentimental, and written in the folk style’ was Schumann’s apt verdict on the pithy verses of Heine’s Buch...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019

JOST; SCHUMANN Dichterliebe

This album represents a deeply personal project – indeed, it could hardly be any more personal. The second disc features...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

HANDEL Joseph and his Brethren

'A inimitable composition’, enthused the Earl of Egmont after the 1744 Covent Garden premiere of Joseph. The oratorio’s success, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019

Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg

David Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019

DVOŘÁK Saint Ludmilla (Svárovský)

Told in a narrative reversal of King Roger and at considerably greater length than Szymanowski’s opera, Dvořák’s commission for the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019

Welcome home, Mr Dubourg

If the name Matthew Dubourg (1703-67) rings any bells today it’s probably because there’s a rather good story about the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

BOCCHERINI Stabat mater. Symphony G508

Ophélie Gaillard and her Pulcinella Orchestra turn to Boccherini for their latest release on Aparté, a finely programmed double album...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

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