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Review of SIBELIUS Songs

SIBELIUS Songs

This selection of about a third of Sibelius’s solo songs with piano confirms again the composer’s imaginatively wide selection of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2016

Review of SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I & III

SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I & III

These two ensembles are (along with Cantus Cölln) among the finest and most prolific exponents of Schütz on CD. With...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Winterreise

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Jon Vickers’s 1983 Winterreise is simply hors concours. As with everything he sang, the Canadian tenor’s sincerity and depth of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016

Review of ROTH A Time to Dance

ROTH A Time to Dance

Composer Alec Roth may be UK-based and of Irish/German descent, but it’s America that provides the musical heritage for his...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2016

Review of ROSENMÜLLER Marienvesper

ROSENMÜLLER Marienvesper

In the early 1650s Johann Rosenmüller was promised that he would become the next Thomaskantor, but this plan was scuppered...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016

Review of PÄRT Organ and Choral Music

PÄRT Organ and Choral Music

This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ, somewhat oddly programmed...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2016

Review of MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

Review of MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

Review of MAYR Requiem

MAYR Requiem

German-born but Italian trained, Simon Mayr was in his early fifties when he turned in earnest to the composition of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

Review of MARTIN Missa

MARTIN Missa

Released to mark the 10th anniversary of the Frauenkirche’s reconsecration, this album effectively functions as a showcase for the talents...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2016

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