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MOZART Mass in C minor CPE BACH Heilig ist Gott

Choice in Mozart’s unfinished C minor Mass gets gradually more generous. For decades, the standard version of the score came...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MENDELSSOHN Elias (Sawallisch)

A great Elijah should grab you even before the Overture – those sombre chords, that ringing proclamation. This recording, taken...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

MAGALHÃES Masses

Felipe de Magelhães was a fellow student at Évora of Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso, whose names are possibly better...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

JONGEN Fêtes rouges: Intégrale des mélodies, Vol 2

The Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), who lived most of his life in Liège, is primarily known for his large-scale...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW23

Mirabilis - The Music of Stephen Hough

In September 2006 pianist and composer Stephen Hough overturned on the motorway at 80mph. He walked away from the accident...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

CESTI 'Insegnatemi a morire'

What is this voice? I first received this album on the road, so I put it on before looking at...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri

It’s more than 10 years since I last encountered this ensemble, performing music by the Lassus pupil Johannes Eccard (9/12);...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

BENEVOLI Missa Tu es Petrus

I have followed I Fagiolini’s recorded output closely since their release of ‘The Other Vespers’, which Gramophone’s David Vickers described...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23

JS BACH; MACMILLAN Motets and Sacred Songs

Singing Bach’s music, music director Nigel Short explains in his booklet essay, was one of his earliest – and happiest...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

JS BACH Cantatas BWV6, 99 & 147

From two initial releases on Virgin Classics in the early 1990s, a dozen or so since for Harmonia Mundi and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23

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