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PALESTRINA Missa Ad coenam Agni. Missa Regina Caeli

Most claims of ‘first recording’ status don’t stand up to scrutiny, so it’s wise of Hyperion and Coro not to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2013

MCCABE Visions

Instrumental music is John McCabe’s usual stamping ground but over the years he has produced a fair crop of choral...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2013

IVES A Songbook

In a just world, credit owed where credit’s due, you’d be filing this disc under ‘Sebastian Gottschick/Charles Ives – A...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013

HOLTEN Venus' Wheel: Works for Choir

Probably best known in Britain for his 15 year tenure as principal guest conductor of the BBC Singers and for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2013

HANDEL Dixit Dominus, HWV232 VIVALDI Dixit Dominus, RV807. In furore, RV626a

This is, incredibly, the sixth commercial recording of Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, RV807, in less than a decade since the Dresden...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2013

GLASS The Passion of Ramakrishna

Considering The Passion of Ramakrishna is concerned with Indian mysticism – in particular the life, death and transfiguration of Sri...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013

COUPERIN Trois Leçons de Ténèbres

Though best known as a composer for the harpsichord, François Couperin also composed motets, a Magnificat and at least three...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2013

BRITTEN Sacred Choral Music

This two-CD set of Britten from the Choir of New College, Oxford, collects together ‘all the music…which might reasonably be...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2013

JS BACH St John Passion

After the profoundly impressive recent liturgico-contextual vision for the St John Passion from the Dunedin Consort and John Butt, two...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2013

Spheres

Daniel Hope’s recording of Max Richter’s The Four Seasons rehash did not fare too well in the pages of this...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2013

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