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A vast amount of interesting music by Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) remains unpublished, scarcely performed and unrecorded, but times could be...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

BLISS Morning Heroes. Hymn to Apollo

It is over 40 years since the last recording of Bliss’s choral symphony Morning Heroes, written in 1930 as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2015

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