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OSGOOD Stabat Mater

Settings of the Stabat mater are rarer than for most other common sacred Latin texts, though the examples of Dvořák,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Concert Arias (Reinoud Van Mechelen)

A leading interpreter of French Baroque, Reinoud Van Mechelen ventures into very different territory in his Mozart album with A...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Complete Masses Vol 4 (Poppen)

Mozart’s Mass No 5 in G (supposedly from 1773) sports an alarmingly scientific compound Köchel number due to some doubt...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

MACHAUT ‘A Lover’s Death’

This is obviously a red-letter day. The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded (lacking only a few monophonic...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2025

LASSUS Penitential Psalms

It’s hard to credit that nearly 20 years have passed since Collegium Vocale Gent’s account of this monumental collection, whose...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2025

JACQUET OF MANTUA Choral Works

Jacquet of Mantua has had a rough time over the years. Already in the 1930s the German scholar Hans Huber...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2025

HAYDN Die Schöpfung (Rattle)

Over three decades ago Simon Rattle’s English-language Creation (EMI/Warner, 4/91) got pretty short shrift in these pages for ‘its air...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2025

FAURÉ La bonne chanson and other songs (Nicky Spence)

Nicky Spence turns to Fauré for his new recital with Julius Drake, a beautifully programmed disc that surveys the dominant...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

DOHERTY Snow Dance for the Dead

Irish composer Seán Doherty has an impressive roster of awards and performances under his belt, but so far a discography...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2025

BRITTEN Canticles RAINIER Cycle for Declamation

Here’s a classy new rendering of Britten’s five Canticles to set alongside those distinguished versions from the likes of Peter...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2025

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