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Lumen Christi: A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil

Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories (Hollingworth)

Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024

STAINER The Crucifixion

Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)

In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus

This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'

If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)

Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus

It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

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