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STRAUSS Lieder

After Thomas Hampson’s recital disc last month, this will do nicely as a contrasting offering for Strauss’s 150th anniversary. Christiane...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014

SCHUBERT Songs

From a marketing standpoint, the presence of a dozen or so Ian Bostridge Schubert discs might suggest a saturation point....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil

How low can you go? To a choral director considering the All-Night Vigil this is, perhaps, the paramount question. Although...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2014

A & R PANUFNIK Songs and Trios

Two fascinating and quite different discs of music by the two Panufniks, father and daughter. ‘Dreamscape’ is a beautifully conceived...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014

PALESTRINA Lamentationes Hiermiae

There’s a restraint – and not just the enforced restraint of Tridentine edicts – to Palestrina’s four sets of Lamentations...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014

MOZART Requiem

In what amounts to a masterpiece of disastrous timing, Mariss Jansons’s live (applause excised) Concertgebouw Mozart Requiem follows only a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2014

PÄRT Stabat Mater MOODY Simeron

The music of both Arvo Pärt and Ivan Moody is characterised by its directness, the sonic purity of its gestures....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014

MONTEVERDI Vespro della beata Vergine 1610

This is in many ways a ‘traditional’ Monteverdi Vespers, carrying little in the way of musicological baggage. Performed in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

MAHLER Lieder

This recital takes us through 25 years of Mahler’s composing life, from the Frühe Lieder to the Rückert Lieder. Not...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

KYR The Cloud of Unknowing. Songs of the Soul

Robert Kyr (b1952) represents a curious phenomenon: a composer just now achieving mainstream recognition after a long, productive creative life...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

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