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Wanderer

I’ve never been quite convinced by Schoenberg’s 1920 chamber reduction of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. True, the sparse scoring...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012

Songs of War

At first sight, ‘Songs of War’ seems an odd title for this collection of songs by, mostly, 20th-century English composers....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012

Songs of the Baltic Sea

Heinz Valk called the 1989 liberation of the Baltic states from Soviet tyranny the Singing Revolution. Now, 20 or more...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012

Secret Voices

There are many reasons why this is a superlative issue. First of course is the wonderful but rarely heard music...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2012

The Power of Love: An English Songbook

This is a carefully planned programme of songs from the 1880s to the 1920s, some of them not well known....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012

High Flight

The 40th anniversary celebrations for the King’s Singers in 2008 produced three new works of exceptional quality, The Stolen Child...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2012

A Bridge of Dreams

Californian plainsong? That’s what you get in Lou Harrison’s 23-minute Mass in 11 sections commissioned by the St Cecilia Society...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue:

VIVALDI Sacred works for soprano, and concertos

Florilegium open their latest dip into Vivaldi – there have been three others before, though none too recent – with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2012

TÜÜR Awakening

Erkki-Sven Tüür is surely one of the most consistently high-quality composers around. Even relatively early works, such as his Insula...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012

ROGIER Missa Inclita stirps Jesse. Missa Philippus Secundus Rex Hispaniae

I’m not sure what inspired Magnificat’s director, Philip Cave, to fly the flag for Philippe Rogier but this recording vindicates...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012

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