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VIVALDI Les Orphelines de Venise

For aeons Andrew Parrott’s version (Virgin, 1/95) was the only noteworthy recording of Vivaldi’s popular Gloria (RV589) that used an...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16

V THOMSON Complete songs

‘Virgil Thomson’s composing gift has never relied on interesting ideas, but on the uses to which dull ideas can be...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW16

TCHAIKOVSKY Sacred Choral Music

This anthology of Tchaikovsky’s sacred music is a valuable addition to the catalogue, containing as it does material from the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW16

STRAVINSKY Mass. Cantata. 3 Sacred Choruses

This logically planned programme is beautifully sung and blessed with outstandingly vivid recorded sound. We are brought close to the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

Roderick Williams: Schubert Lieder

This disc might start with a bang, Iain Burnside welcoming us on board with a firm jolt at the start...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16

TEGNÉR; NORDQVIST Sång, vår sång!

Liturgical music by two Swedish organist-composers, one born in 1864, the other 22 years later. Both worked around Stockholm but...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

MORALES The Seven Lamentations

Founded just a year ago, Utopia are among the proliferating number of young ensembles to combine a softer continental sound...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW16

Paradisi Gloria: Sacred music by Emperor Leopold I

Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) was one of the most musically minded of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors. His cultivation of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16

DE LA RUE Missa Nuncqua Fue Pena Mayor

After 10 years of recordings with Hyperion, Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble can look back on a truly enviable...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW16

LANGAARD 18 Songs

Straight off the back of Paul von Klenau’s Ninth Symphony (Dacapo, 7/16), it’s good to be in the company of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

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