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Conductus: Music & poetry from thirteenth-century France

Apart from various Carmina Burana selections over the years, there have been remarkably few recordings of the conductus repertory –...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012

TODD The Call of Wisdom

Will Todd’s moment in the glare of popular consciousness came in June when his anthem The Call of Wisdom was...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW/2012

STRADELLA Ester & La Susana

Musicologists concur with the judgement of late-17th-century writers and musicians: Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) was the finest Italian composer of his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012

A Requiem for Josquin

It’s hard to dispute the notion that Jean Richafort wrote his sumptuous Requiem as a memorial to Josquin, so shot...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2012

NICOLAI Psalms

Otto Nicolai (1810-49), a contemporary of Mendelssohn, is renowned for composing a delightful opera, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012

MOUTON Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensées

The more one hears Mouton’s music, the stranger seems the oft-quoted description of him by a 16th-century theorist as the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2012

Antony Hopkins: A Portrait

In the 1940s and ’50s Antony Hopkins was a familiar name as composer, conductor, broadcaster, author, lecturer, first-rate pianist –...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW/2012

PURCELL Music for a While HANDEL Trio Sonata Op 5 No 4

An odd programme – Purcell songs and Handel’s radiant solo motet Silete venti, with items for the girls and boys...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2012

HANDEL Song for St Cecilia’s Day. Look Down, Harmonious Saint

Handel set Dryden’s sophisticated St Cecilia ode Alexander’s Feast in 1736 and three years later he turned his attention to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012

BRITTEN Rarities

The Decca Eloquence label has become a wonderful source of welcome rarities, thanks to the initiative and deep knowledge of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2012

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