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Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks

A successor to the two ensembles’ previous joint venture devoted to the Dow partbooks, this album presents a selection from...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015

Nordic Songs

An international Sophie, Gretel, Pamina and much else, Camilla Tilling shows herself at home here in Scandinavian songs with a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015

Flos virginum

CDs of 15th-century motets are thin on the ground, the tendency being to programme sacred music of this period around...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015

Fiançailles pour rire

Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard’s ‘Fiançailles pour rire’ ostensibly forms a sequel to their 2011 Debussy disc ‘Clair de lune’,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

The Call

Anybody with deep affection for the more noble anthems of the Anglican tradition will need no excuse to grab a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2015

SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien

Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien require no introduction. So well known are they (courtesy of an extensive discography) that it’s easy to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2015

Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss and Wagner

It is difficult to believe that Adrianne Pieczonka has built up some years of experience of singing taxing Strauss and...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2015

SILVESTROV To Thee We Sing

At a first, superficial listening, this hour-long selection of Silvestrov’s a cappella choral music gives an impression of sumptuous solace,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2015

SCHUBERT Goethe Lieder

To call this a disc of simple pleasures is to do it a disservice, yet it is the apparent straightforwardness...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015

PAULUS Choral Music. Calm on the Listening Ear

Stephen Paulus was an astonishingly prolific fixture of the American music scene, with some 600 works to his credit. His...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2015

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