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Transfigured

Post-Karajan, perhaps, performances of Verklärte Nacht have been getting slower and slower, wringing out ever more juice from its pages,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook

A disc of Shakespeare song-settings – we all know the drill. Except, here, we really don’t. This new recital from...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Anthems Vol 1

During the past 17 years Stephen Layton has nurtured the chapel choir of Trinity College Cambridge into arguably the pre-eminent...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023

TAN DUN Buddha Passion

In 2000 Tan Dun was one of four composers commissioned by Helmuth Rilling to write new Passion settings. His Water...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

SHEPPARD Missa Cantate

That Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have – after 50 years of concerts – never before recorded Sheppard’s Cantate...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Mass No 6 (Welser-Möst)

Recordings of Schubert’s sacred music don’t exactly grow on trees, and even though his final Mass is perhaps the best-known...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (MDR Leipzig Radio Choir)

The 70-odd singers of the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and the city’s Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche provide an authoritative ‘home’ response to a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

MAHLER Kindertotenlieder. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Rückert Lieder (Satrah Connoly)

Sarah Connolly caresses the opening phrase of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with a welcome dignity, and her voice retains its warmth and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

MACHAUT 'The Fount of Grace'

In the penultimate instalment of their Machaut series, The Orlando Consort tackle a pinnacle of the composer’s output, the Lay...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2023

LOEWE Jan Hus

Although Carl Loewe’s reputation today lies within his prodigious output of songs and ballads, his long career as a church...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023

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