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LEIGHTON; MARTIN Masses for Double Choir

Kenneth Leighton’s and Frank Martin’s Masses begin almost identically, and for a time the similarities between them are so obvious...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

HANDEL Judas Maccabaeus (Cummings)

Granted, Judas Maccabaeus is never likely to be a favourite in Scotland. But Handel’s celebration of ‘Butcher’ Cumberland’s victory over...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral Works

There are just four extant choral works by Maurice Duruflé, which, by good fortune, are easily accommodated on a single...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

DUFAY Lament for Constantinople & other songs

This isn’t the first recording of Dufay’s chansons to appear since the Medieval Ensemble of London’s complete survey nearly 40...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019

CAVALLI Missa 1660

To celebrate the Treaty of the Pyrenees between France and Spain, and to mark the consequent wedding of the young...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2019

BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust (Rattle)

If a single achievement symbolises the British ‘lead’ in performing Berlioz over the composer’s homeland, it could well be the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH St John Passion (Serov)

A Soviet decree in 1928 forbade performances of Bach’s Passions by the State Academic Cappella more than twice a year,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Cantatas BWV 169 & 82. BWV 33, 17 & 99

The sublime lullaby ‘Schlummert ein’, surely the most searching and sensuous meditation on the favourite Pietist metaphor of death-as-sleep, has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

Leonard Pennario: The Complete RCA Album Collection

The pianist Leonard Pennario has never been ranked with the all-time greats. He died in 2008 but never achieved the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Radio Recordings 1939-1945

Do you want this box? Yes, you do. Is it worth it? Again, yes, almost certainly, it is. Diehard Furtwängler...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

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