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VENEZIANO St John Passion

Favourite pupil of Francesco Provenzale and the most prominent Neapolitan composer before the arrival of Scarlatti, Gaetano Veneziano lived and...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2016

RUTTER Psalmfest

Fans of John Rutter will welcome this premiere recording of his Psalmfest, a collection of seven of his existing psalm...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 07/2016

REGER Songs

Reger wrote some 300 songs during the course of his career, very few of which form part of the regular...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

MONDONVILLE Grands Motets

Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, a violinist and composer prominent in Parisian musical life in the mid-18th century, was among the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016

CARON Twilight of the Middle Ages

Born in Amiens and named after his town’s patron saint, Firminus Caron (c1440-after 1480) was a contemporary of Johannes Tinctoris...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016

Buxtehude and his Circle

Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices explore the circle of church organists and composers in northern Germany and the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016

Katt - Organ Works

Each generation produces at least one organist who sets out to make the instrument acceptable to a new audience through...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2016

Vadym Kholodenko: Piano

Vadym Kholodenko begins this decidedly unhackneyed programme with what may be the finest recording of Balakirev’s Sonata No 2 since...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

Coming soon after Freddy Kempf’s identical coupling, Jonas Vitaud’s recording is altogether less diffident. He speaks of the Grande Sonate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2016

MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

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