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C SCHUMANN Complete Songs

It’s good to be able to welcome a survey of Clara Schumann’s songs for the composer’s anniversary – they more...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

ROSSINI Petite Messe solennelle (Berndt)

The Petite Messe solennelle was first performed in Paris in 1864 as a chamber work for 12 singers, two pianos...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

OBRECHT Masses

The Fra Bernado label is certainly fulfilling its mission statement to cover ‘white spots on the map of early music’...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

MARTINSSON Into Eternity

Unless one happens to be dealing with Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho or Steve Reich, it’s difficult to suppress the surge...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

LULLY Dies Irae. De Profundis. Te Deum

These three ceremonial grand motets were included in Lully’s publication of assorted Motets à deux choeurs de la Chapelle du...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

LEIFS Edda II: The Lives of the Gods

If Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is the glossed-up, ‘Hollywood’ version of Wotan’s shenanigans, this is the urtext. Eleven years...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

JOSQUIN Adieu mes Amours

Singing self-accompanied on the lute was considered a mark of the true Renaissance gentleman, but the two functions could be...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2019

JOHANNES DE LYMBURGIA Gaude Felix Padua

Johannes de Lymburgia was active in the Veneto around 1430, though presumably born in the Low Countries. His music is...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2019

HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Cummings)

The Passion oratorio Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus is usually nicknamed the Brockes Passion after...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

FINZI Choral Works (Trinity College Cambridge Choir)

What a beautifully crafted disc this is – not just in its quality (and it really is Trinity at their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

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