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POULENC Stabat Mater. Les Biches

Poulenc performance practice, at least in this recording, has evolved well beyond the dry but clear sonorities heard in many...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2013

MOZART Requiem

King’s College Choir continue releases on their own label with a performance of the ‘traditional’ version of Mozart’s Requiem, as...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2013

MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale Vol 3

This is the final volume in The Sixteen’s survey of Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (published Venice, 1641). The series...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013

MACMILLAN Magnificat. Tyst. Nunc Dimittis. O

The disc opens with a morose Advent antiphon simply titled O which, we are told, is derived from the sound...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2013

JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass. Taras Bulba

Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass has had a number of successful recordings, most notably by Rafael Kubelík and Karel An∂erl, both Czechs,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2013

HINDEMITH Messe. Six Chansons. Apparebit repentina dies

This is a strangely unbalanced CD, opening with great vitality with the vivid brass of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2013

HANDEL Chandos Anthems

Three cheers for three more anthems for the Duke of Chandos to complement the three already available from the same...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2013

GRIBBIN Island People. Merrow Sang. Crossing the Sea

A notable presence on the UK contemporary music scene for well over a decade, Deirdre Gribbin (Belfast-born and now London-based)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013

CHARPENTIER Judith sive Bethulia liberata

Charpentier’s histoires sacrées show the strong influence of his probable teacher Carissimi. His first sacred history, Judith, was composed in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013

BACH St Matthew Passion

John Nelson describes the St Matthew Passion as ‘the pinnacle of musical civilisation’ in a persuasive documentary which accompanies his...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2013

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