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Review of SCHUMANN Missa Sacra

SCHUMANN Missa Sacra

Schumann’s choral music is perhaps the most neglected section of this most – often wilfully – misunderstood composer’s output. It’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2013

Review of RUTTER The Tewkesbury Collection

RUTTER The Tewkesbury Collection

This CD is a valuable addition to the John Rutter discography and shows that the composer is more than simply...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2013

Review of MENDELSSOHN; MÄNTYJÄRVI Psalms

MENDELSSOHN; MÄNTYJÄRVI Psalms

One result of Mendelssohn’s bicentenary in 2009 was a commission by Stuttgart’s International Bach Academy to the Finnish composer Jaakko...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

Review of MACMILLAN Missa Dunelmi

MACMILLAN Missa Dunelmi

James MacMillan’s brief unaccompanied Mass for Durham Cathedral is here surrounded by a motley selection of carols, motets, anthems and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013

Review of HANDEL Messiah

HANDEL Messiah

Now that Tafelmusik has started up its own label, hopefully the Canadian period-instrument orchestra will return to recording new projects...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013

Review of GREENE Spenser’s Amoretti

GREENE Spenser’s Amoretti

The songs of Maurice Greene are not exactly well known, any more than are most English art-songs from Handel’s time....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

Review of GABRIELI Sacred Symphonies

GABRIELI Sacred Symphonies

As far as one can tell, the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli’s death seems not to have attracted much attention,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

Review of Partsongs by Frederick Delius & John Ireland

Partsongs by Frederick Delius & John Ireland

Apart from as a composer (and writer), it has been a while since Paul Spicer’s last published outing. That was,...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013

Review of Jesu Amantissime

Jesu Amantissime

Though one of the more talented and important figures of the French mid-Baroque, André Campra has never quite broken through...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

Review of BRITTEN War Requiem

BRITTEN War Requiem

The failure of television companies to broadcast the premiere of Britten’s War Requiem is deeply regrettable. However confused and messy...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2013

 

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