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Venezia Millenaria

Two discs, over 50 performers and 1000 years of musical history: even by Jordi Savall’s standards, ‘Venezia Millenaria’ is an...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018

Sophie Bevan: Songs of Vain Glory

This collection of English songs (in this instance songs in English, since it contains two songs by Americans) is a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018

Shakespired: Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Founded in 2012, the Polish six-voice ensemble proMODERN are a seriously exciting group. There are obvious parallels with James Weeks’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018

Les Funérailles Royales de Louis XIV

Prolonged exequies for Louis XIV culminated at the abbey of Saint-Denis on October 23, 1715, in a funeral service that...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2018

English Motets

The Gesualdo Six are the latest all-male, one-to-a-part a cappella vocal ensemble to emerge from the English choral scene, and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2018

H PRAETORIUS Missa Tulerant Dominum meum

The discography of Hieronymus Praetorius (apparently no relation of the more famous and younger Michael) is small but distinguished, The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2018

PITTS Missa Unitatis

As director of Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts’s spiritually imbued sacred settings have evolved hand in hand with his vocal ensemble...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2018

F MARTIN; MACMILLAN Passion & Polyphony

Twenty years ago the Gramophone Recording of the Year was a Hyperion disc by Westminster Cathedral Choir under James O’Donnell....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018

GOUNOD Cantatas and Sacred Music

‘My sole aim’, Gounod wrote of his Conservatoire days in his Mémoires d’un artiste, ‘was the Grand Prix de Rome,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

FINN Falsettos

The two parts of William Finn and James Lapine’s brilliant urban opera Falsettos first came together in 1992 when the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2018

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