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SCHUMANN Missa Sacra (Putniņš)

Schumann’s sacred music remains the least-explored facet of his output – less appreciated even than his forays into opera and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Samuel Hasselhorn)

In a class by itself? That well-worn cliché kept surfacing during multiple listenings to this new recording, which promises to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

SAWYERS Mayflower on the Sea of Time

Oratorios are often on biblical or spiritual subjects, but Philip Sawyers’s Mayflower on the Sea of Time (2017 18) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

MEHLDAU The Folly of Desire

A musical commentary on desire? How can that work? The most famous piece in that territory – Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

LUZZASCHI Il concerto segreto

Luzzaschi’s Madrigali, printed in 1601, supposedly contains the music that the ‘three ladies’ of Ferrara sang privately for Duke Alfonso...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2023

LARCHER The Living Mountain

Thomas Larcher’s The Living Mountain is a realist, handheld-camera response to the Hollywood glitz of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. The soprano...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023

A HUGHES Dewi Sant

It is now 33 years since Arwel Hughes’s oratorio Dewi Sant (‘Saint David’) was issued on Chandos, with the BBC...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2023

HENZE Das Floss der Medusa (Meister)

‘The form is strong. The imagery is eloquent. This is a lyrical, impassioned, masterly and very powerful composition: a humanist...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023

HANDEL Israel in Egypt (Sorrell)

Handel’s Israel in Egypt is presented here in an excellent performance, from a concert at Shaker Heights, a suburb of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023

GARŪTA Apple Tree

Those who enjoy exploring the uncharted byways of choral music will definitely relish this new disc of a cappella works...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2023

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