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Tenebrae: Symphonic Psalms and Prayers

There is a coarse and forthright authority to the composer-led first recordings of Chichester Psalms (CBS, 12/65) and Symphony of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018

Voces 8: Equinox

Few ensembles put a programme together quite as well as Voces8. Thoughtful, themed discs have become something of a signature...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2018

WARREN 42nd Street

The sound of tapping feet invokes a whole era of classic Broadway and Hollywood musicals, and when the curtain rises...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Padmore)

Only a few months after Florian Boesch’s second recording of Schubert’s great wintry song-cycle (Hyperion, A/17), here’s a second bite...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018

SCHNITTKE Psalms of Repentance PÄRT Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis

Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance constitute one of the most technically challenging works in the entire choral literature (having conducted them...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2018

PALESTRINA Missa Confitebor tibi Domine

This is really two quite separate discs. One has the 28 voices of the Yale Schola Cantorum, performing unaccompanied in...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2018

MONTEVERDI Clorinda e Tancredi

Step into the Danieli Palace hotel in Venice and, with a bit of creative imagination, it is possible to commune...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 03/2018

MEDTNER Songs

The resurgence of interest in the music of Nikolay Medtner has tended to focus, understandably enough, on his piano works,...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2018

MAHLER Kindertotenlieder STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung

The catalogue already has a couple of recordings of Mahler’s devastating song-cycle from that most devastating of singers, Brigitte Fassbaender....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018

MACONCHY Héloïse and Abelard

In his informative and substantial essay (unusually placed after the libretto in the booklet), Paul Conway describes Maconchy’s ‘dramatic cantata’...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2018

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