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PRAETORIUS Motets

The music of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) is clearly influenced by Giovanni Gabrielli and the Venetian polychoral style which flourished at...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2019

L MOZART Missa solemnis (De Marchi)

Respect for Leopold Mozart seems often to be given grudgingly. His achievements include a major treatise on violin-playing and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

MACMILLAN One Equal Music

Large-scale choral works by James MacMillan, such as his early Seven Last Words from the Cross or the more recent...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019

LANDINI L’Occhio del Cor

With over 20 CDs of medieval music to their name, the (Italian) group La Reverdie are certainly well placed to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2019

HOWELLS An English Mass. Cello Concerto

Commissioned for the 1977 Leith Hill Festival, Howells’s orchestration of the towering Te Deum that he wrote in 1944 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor (Aaron Sheehan)

This is the third recital devoted to John Beard, the singer for whom Handel wrote almost every significant tenor role...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

Renée Fleming: Lieder

Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018

BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust (Roth)

This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2019

BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Bernius)

Without minimising either the monumental elements of Beethoven’s long gestated Mass setting or its sheer difficulty, Frieder Bernius coaches from...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

Russian Masquerade

Of course transcription involves compromise here and amplification there but the case of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives in this 1962 arrangement...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

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