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Scaramella: Obrecht, Fitch, Brumel, Agricola

Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella has a bizarre history. We have only two of its original four voice-parts, known from an apparently...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

FUTRELL Stabat mater. Brittle Fluid. Vuggesang

Currently nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize (previous winners include Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you and Per...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024

CAMPRA Messe de Requiem

André Campra may be one of the key French opera composers between Lully and Rameau but I suspect at the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW2024

BYRD The Great Service. English Anthems

The novelty of this take on Byrd’s longest and grandest work is that David Skinner and the singers of Alamire...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

BENEVOLI Missa Benevola

Mark Seow waxed ecstatic about the first volume of I Fagiolini’s Benevoli series (A/23), which continues with a Mass for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Arias for Alto (Zoltan Darago)

Bach wrote some of his best music for the alto voice. In ‘Erbarme dich’ from the St Matthew Passion and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2024

Peter Donohoe: Waltzes

Peter Donohoe takes his time over the course of Schumann’s Abegg Variations, shaping the long phrases with expansive yet elegantly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

Alexi Kenney: Shifting Ground

This solo recital is ‘an exploration of how Bach’s influence has rippled through time’, Alexi Kenney writes in a very...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

Polyphonic Dreams (Victor Nicoara)

Having already established his Busoni credentials in a collection centred on the six Sonatinas (A/21), Victor Nicoara now releases this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

New Dances of the League of David

The idea of contemporary composers writing works in direct response to masterpieces by composers from the past may be old...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

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