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Spirit, Strength & Sorrow: Settings of Stabat Mater

Ever innovative in their programming, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen juxtapose Domenico Scarlatti’s beautiful 10-part Stabat mater – stile antico...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015

The Marian Collection

This landmark Delphian recording forms the fourth and final issue of a series designed to showcase Merton College’s new choral...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

Invitation au voyage

So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Flowers of the Field

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015

Thomas Michael Allen: Far Away

Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Xavier Sabata: I Dilettanti

This has a genuinely interesting concept: music for alto voice and basso continuo by six accomplished ‘dilettante’ composers, some of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

PIZZETTI Requiem ALLEGRI; MACMILLAN Miserere

The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

VERDI Requiem

Brahms believed that Hans von Bülow ‘disgraced himself for all time’ by lampooning this work as ‘opera in church clothing’....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015

PRZYBYLSKI Passio for 12 Voices

Born in Poland in 1984, Dariusz Przybylski studied in Germany with York Höller and Wolfgang Rihm; this recording was made...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2015

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