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G WILLIAMS Missa Cambrensis

The Grace Williams revival continues apace with this very significant premiere recording of her largest work for the concert hall....

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Suite on Verses of Michelangelo. October

Matthias Goerne and Mikko Franck are embarked on a series of Shostakovich recordings for the Alpha label of which this...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2025

SCHUMANN 'Twilight'

By now, Ian Bostridge’s followers have approximate expectations of any new recording, this one being Schumann songs written mostly in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025

SCHUBERT 'Licht und Schatten’

'Light and Shadow’, the title of this second album in Samuel Hasselhorn’s Schubert 200 series, could apply to virtually any...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2025

PACHELBEL Magnificat II

Pachelbel composed at least 11 imaginatively multifaceted concertato treatments of the Magnificat. These two fine settings probably date from his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025

OSGOOD Stabat Mater

Settings of the Stabat mater are rarer than for most other common sacred Latin texts, though the examples of Dvořák,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Concert Arias (Reinoud Van Mechelen)

A leading interpreter of French Baroque, Reinoud Van Mechelen ventures into very different territory in his Mozart album with A...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Complete Masses Vol 4 (Poppen)

Mozart’s Mass No 5 in G (supposedly from 1773) sports an alarmingly scientific compound Köchel number due to some doubt...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

MACHAUT ‘A Lover’s Death’

This is obviously a red-letter day. The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded (lacking only a few monophonic...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2025

LASSUS Penitential Psalms

It’s hard to credit that nearly 20 years have passed since Collegium Vocale Gent’s account of this monumental collection, whose...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2025

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