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Russia

This is a Russian choral album with a difference, offering not only the rich, diatonic panoply of Glinka’s cherubim and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015

Rameau's Funeral

You can listen to this disc from Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons and Collegium Vocale Gent in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015

Lucia Duchoňová: Melancholy

This is an intriguing programme from the Slovakian mezzo-soprano Lucia Duchoňová, consisting largely of works some way off the beaten...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015

The Heart's Refuge

‘It was primarily thanks to music that the German-speaking countries were able to recover from the ordeal of the Thirty...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015

De Passione

This issue explores the earliest coherent repertory of what we now call the motet, namely four-voice Latin devotional pieces; and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2015

Blow out, ye bugles: Music from the time of the First World War

This CD’s imaginative programme offers music written in response to the events of the First World War. The five composers...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2015

Au Sainct nau

It feels like a long time since the last release from Ensemble Clément Janequin. They’ve been going for about 35...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War’

Anonymous 4 are retiring. Not immediately, but the American all-female vocal quartet have announced their decision to go their separate...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015

THUILLE Songs

Champs Hill Records has already given us a set of chamber music by Ludwig Thuille, the talented Munich composer and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

SANDSTRÖM Nordic Mass

For the musically curious with time on their hands, as well as a penchant for superb a cappella singing, this...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015

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