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WOLF Complete Songs Vol 3

The challenge with any Hugo Wolf collection is to be the vehicle of the songs, rather than the victim of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012

MENDELSSOHN Psalm 100, Op 69/2 KREEK Psalms

The Estonians’ latest calling card (recorded in 2009) is a highly satisfying, generously filled a cappella programme of mostly little-heard...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2012

LISZT The Complete Songs Volume 2

A prime virtue of Hyperion’s latest song intégrale is that it precisely documents Liszt’s bewildering variety of revisions and resettings....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2012

ECCARD Sacred & Secular Works

Johannes Eccard’s might not be a household name but he did leave a tune that is justly famous, setting Luther’s...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

Although well represented in the catalogue, there is always room for another strong, heartfelt performance of Dvořák’s first major sacred...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2012

DIVITIS Requiem

This, the fourth recording of an early Renaissance Requiem setting I’ve reviewed in as many months, follows closely on the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012

CLAUSEN Choral Works

>‘Life and Breath’ has a pleasing choice of liturgical and sacred texts, and René Clausen’s word-setting is always appropriate and...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2012

BYRD The Great Service in the Chapel Royal

The magnificent series of recordings by The Cardinall’s Musick under Andrew Carwood has brought the sacred music of William Byrd...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012

BERLIOZ Herminie. Les Nuits d'été RAVEL Shéhérazade

After three successful volumes of ‘Tragédiennes’, Véronique Gens follows in the great line of French-speaking sopranos by committing to disc...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2012

BEETHOVEN (Der) glorreiche Augenblick. Choral Fantasia

It wasn’t quite Der glorreiche Augenblick. The Congress of Vienna in September 1814 was dampened by Napoleon (who had also...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012

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