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DESSAU Lanzelot (Beykirch)

Cultural history written by the victors can overstate the divergence of communism and capitalism, complicity and dissent, socialist realism and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2023

'The Splendour of Florence With a Burgundian Resonance’

Fifteenth-century song recitals are rare enough for this recording to be welcomed with open arms, particularly as a few of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2023

SOMMER Orchestral Songs

‘Just let me jump in the saddle!’ A march rhythm, a jaunty swagger from the orchestra and – swirling that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2023

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Mark Padmore. Andrè Schuen)

Pairing Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Schubert’s Schwanengesang makes poetic and practical sense: though separated by only a dozen...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2023

MOZART Complete Masses, Vol 2 (Poppen)

Christoph Poppen and his Cologne forces launched their survey of Mozart’s Masses in fine style a little over a year...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MOMOTENKO Creator of Angels

A major-label debut for a composer in his fifties – the Latvian Radio Choir’s latest release is an intriguing prospect....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2023

MARENZIO 'The Destined Knot'

This ingenious programme weaves a continuous narrative by collating Marenzio’s settings of Guarini’s Il pastor fido. Ingenious because it offers...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2023

MACMILLAN Christmas Oratorio

This recording of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio captures the work’s delayed UK premiere, originally scheduled (as the world premiere) for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2023

HOWELLS Anthems for Choir & Orchestra VENABLES Requiem

This inspired recording project – a synthesis of musical intersections and connections, repertoire new and old, arrangements and homages –...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2023

FIOCCO Lamentationes Hebdomadæ Sanctæ

It seems that Fiocco’s Lamentations have never before been presented in their entirety, but this recording adds recently discovered alternative...

Reviewed in issue 02/2023

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