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PADOVANO Missa A la dolc' ombra. Missa Domine a lingua dolosa

A tale of two Masses, one based on a madrigal, the other on a motet. Cinquecento’s latest release, coupling Annibale...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

OCKEGHEM Complete Songs Vol 2

This completes Blue Heron’s two-disc set of Ockeghem’s complete songs (1/20), coming just four years after the parallel collection from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2024

LA HÈLE Missa Praeter rerum seriem

George de La Hèle (1547‑86) was one of a last wave of composers from the Low Countries to occupy a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2024

KOZLOVZKI Requiem (Graf)

Józef Kozłowski (or Osip Kozlovsky, 1757-1831) was born in Warsaw but gravitated to St Petersburg, where he became music master...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024

HAYDN The Creation (Janowski)

This set preserves a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece from a couple of summers ago. On its own terms,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024

HANDEL 'Freedom - Oratorio Arias' (Oscar Verhaar)

When I was an undergraduate, discussions about Handel’s nationality raged, before attention turned to his sexuality. Both debates are now...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

FAURÉ La Bonne Chanson. L'Horizon chimérique. Ballade. Mélodies (Stéphane Degout)

To mark this year’s centenary of Fauré’s death, Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès survey five of his song-cycles in this...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH; TELEMANN 'Himmelfahrt'

Bach composed four cantatas for Ascension Day in Leipzig, and here are two of them complemented by the premiere recording...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH 'A Life in Music Vol 1'

I hail the advent of a new miniseries from Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, having already found their previous...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

Melody Lin: Virtuoso Harpsichord Music

This is a debut release for harpsichordist Melody Lin, showcasing her impressive finger dexterity in a selection of the instrument’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024

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