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MOZART Requiem (René Jacobs)

>‘Mozart’s Requiem will never be finished’, says French composer Pierre-Henri Dutron in the booklet to his completion of this great...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2017

McCARTHY Codebreaker TODD Ode to a Nightingale

With the appeal of choral singing in the United Kingdom showing no signs of decline it is, nevertheless, important that the concert...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2017

JOUBERT St Mark Passion

Some 75 years after his first involvement with church music at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch, South Africa, John Joubert began...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

VON BINGEN Ego Sum Homo

One of the special pleasures at this year’s Antwerp Early Music Festival was hearing what may have been the Western...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2017

GIBBONS In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol 1

Don’t start playing this disc at the beginning. Skip straight to track 3 and Gibbons’s first In nomine a 5, and listen to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2017

FAURÉ Requiem (Yale Schola Cantorum)

As if there weren’t enough versions of the Fauré Requiem around already, David Hill has made another, recorded here. Hill’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2017

EŠENVALDS The Doors of Heaven

One might have thought that trying to beat the Latvians at their own game was an impossible task, but this outstanding...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2017

COMPÈRE Music for the Duke of Milan

This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017

JS BACH Solo Cantatas for Bass

Both of Bach’s great solo bass cantatas reflect on the voyage of the soul, Ich habe genug essentially as a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2017

Elsa Grether: Kaleidoscope

The French violinist Elsa Grether isn’t such a well-known name in the UK, but her recording of Bloch’s two violin...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017

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