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LASSUS St Matthew Passion

It’s nearly 25 years since Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices recorded this St Matthew Passion (Harmonia Mundi, 9/94). As I...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018

LAMBERT Leçons De Ténèbres

Michel Lambert was admired as a singer, lutenist and teacher in 17th-century Paris and, while remembered today as Lully’s father-in-law,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2018

KOŽELUCH Kantata zur Krönung Leopolds II

‘Leopold KoŽeluch is without question with young and old the most generally loved among our living composers, and this with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018

KARLSSON Seven Songs. Clarinet Concerto

Gabriel Suovanen suggested Lars Karlsson (b1953) write a song-cycle for him when the two men ran into one another at...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018

JACKSON of Exeter Songs,Canzonets & a Sonata

The avid amateur astronomer William Jackson (1730-1803) was director of music at Exeter Cathedral and a friend of Gainsborough. Michael...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018

FEO San Francesco di Sales

Little known today, Francesco Feo (1691 1761) was a Neapolitan composer and teacher, a contemporary of Leonardo Leo and Niccolò...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

Nicholas Phan: Illuminations

Nicholas Phan’s previous releases have shown him to be not only a fine singer but a fine programmer, too. His...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Suzuki)

Listening to this bright and honest Missa solemnis brings memories of the 1970s and early ’80s, when period-instrument bands and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2018

JS BACH Consolatio (Cantatas)

Consolation is, of course, a prevalent conceit in Bach’s expressive armoury (as dictated by the cyclical requirements of the church...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2018

Stewart Goodyear: For Glenn Gould

Many years ago I was hired to perform Beethoven’s C minor Variations with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018

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