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Anne Boleyn’s Songbook

The manuscript concerned – MS1070 in the Royal College of Music – contains 42 pieces, all but three of them...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015

TAVERNER Missa Corona spinea

This is one for those who have fixed views on the speed of 16th-century music: the marvellous 1989 recording of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2015

STRADELLA San Giovanni Cristostomo

A vast amount of interesting music by Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) remains unpublished, scarcely performed and unrecorded, but times could be...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015

Mozart and the Weber Sisters

‘A Mozartian hotch-potch’ was my uncharitable first reaction when I glanced through the contents of this disc. Eating humble pie,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2015

MEINARDUS Luther in Worms

When Wagner remarked of Carl Loewe in 1875 that ‘there is a serious German master’, he was more likely thinking...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

LASSUS Prophetiae sybillarum

Of Lassus’s larger-scale cycles, the Prophetiae sybillarum is among the trickier ones to bring off. It sits in a limbo...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2015

HEGGIE The moon’s a gong, hung in the wild

By his own admission, Jake Heggie is a theatre composer who can make a drama of a song text, a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2015

GOMBERT Motets

Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) was a significant composer of the post-Josquin generation and a singer disgraced from the Emperor Charles V’s...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2015

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

The unenlightened, lamented Adrian Mole will never ‘see Michaelangelo’s Mona Lisa. Nor will they thrill to a Brahms Opera.’ Perhaps...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

BRAHMS; BRUCKNER Motets

Without a full complement of sopranos ready to hurl out and sustain high Cs, a choir preparing to record Bruckner...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

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