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Tears from the Soul

These days, whenever five viol players are gathered together, somebody is going to haul out the Dow Partbooks. There are...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2023

Sword in the Soul: Grier; Elgar; Bednall; Park

Premiered on Radio 4 in 1991, Sword in the Soul is a product of another age – one in which...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023

Rolling River: American Choral

The ancient English choral tradition meets contemporary American choral music in ‘Rolling River’, the latest recording from Graham Ross and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023

Maria Mater Meretrix

‘Maria Mater Meretrix’ is a concept album that effectively explores the male-created female stereotypes or ‘classical female phenomenologies’ (as the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023

Magnificat 3

To record one volume of Anglican canticles may be regarded as a misfortune. To record three (four, once the series...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023

RUBBRA Songs 'The Jaded Mountain'

Here’s a most welcome and hugely enterprising anthology, which gathers together all of Edmund Rubbra’s published songs featuring piano or...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2023

MOČNIK Pasijon Po Janezu (St John Passion)

Damijan Močnik’s music has not so far been familiar to me, but he is a very active figure in the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023

HANDEL Solomon (Alarcón)

Leonardo García Alarcón uses the recent HHA edition (2014) of Solomon, although departs surreptitiously from Handel’s orchestration several times. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2023

GÓRECKI Beatus Vir. Concerto-Cantata. Canticum Graduum

Beatus vir is classic second-period Górecki, written three years after the notorious Symphony No 3, in 1979, and receiving its...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023

DASER Polyphonic Masses

Poor Ludwig Daser (c1525-1589). If you’ve heard anything about him it was probably that he once retired as Kapellmeister to...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2023

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