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Conversations with God

The title of this recording, ‘Conversations with God’, takes its cue from a 1645 publication by Andreas Hammerschmidt, a representative...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

TALLIS Lamentations of Jeremiah

This final volume of Tallis from The Cardinall’s Musicke continues the fine form of its predecessors. Their interpretation of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

SØRENSEN Snowbells

This is proving some year for Bent Sørensen. His remarkable new Triple Concerto was premiered by Trio Con Brio and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2016

SCHNITTKE Penitential Psalms

Composed in 1988 to celebrate the millennium of Russia’s conversion to Christianity, Schnittke’s Penitential Psalms overlap stylistically and conceptually with...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2016

PASQUINI La sete di Cristo

Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) was Rome’s leading harpsichordist and organist at about the same time as Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. Indeed,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

LOTTI Crucifixus

Just as there’s more to Allegri than the Miserere, so with Antonio Lotti. The ubiquitous ‘Crucifixus’ (from the Missa Sancti...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016

LISZT Complete Songs Vol 4

Over half the songs in Vol 4 of Julian Drake’s Liszt series date from 1860 to 1880, a period that...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016

LEIFS Complete Songs

Jón Leifs wrote songs throughout his career, works which ‘give unusually clear insights into the composer’, according to Árni Heimir...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2016

HOMILIUS Der Messias

The Homilius revival marches on. Following a clutch of recordings from Carus, CPO gets in on the act with the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

Handel at Vauxhall

There is not much cast-iron proof about the concert programmes performed at Vauxhall Gardens on any given night during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

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