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WALTON 'The Complete Songbook'

In the mid-1950s a Cambridge undergraduate asked his professor why William Walton had never produced a successor to the great...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024

STRADELLA Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

Alessandro Stradella’s life reads like a modern-day novel by Donna Leon, since his brief biography includes fleeing from matchmaking troubles...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

SCHÜTZ Weihnachtshistorie (Meunier. Wilson)

Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie was probably first performed on Christmas Day 1660 at the Dresden court chapel, but when it was published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

SCHNITTKE; VEDEL; BORTNIANSKY Choir Concertos

Readers may have attended a memorable account of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir at London’s Union Chapel in 1989, the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2024

PARK; TRIMBLE 'Songs from Northern Ireland'

Carolyn Dobbin and Iain Burnside have come up with another gem of a disc for Delphian (its predecessor, ‘Calen-O: Songs...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2024

MOZART Requiem (Pichon)

Pygmalion toured Mozart’s Requiem last year, including a well-received visit to the Proms. Their interpretation is preserved here on a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2024

LEIGHTON; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'That Sweet City'

Taking its title from Matthew Arnold’s nostalgic pastoral poem of 1865 Thyrsis (‘And that sweet city with her dreaming spires’),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2024

JACKSON The Christmas Story

A decade on, and Gabriel Jackson’s award-winning collaboration with Benjamin Nicholas and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, The Passion...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2024

Handel in Rome

Putting together three of Handel’s early Roman cantatas is a tried and tested formula, although John Butt and the Dunedin...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

JS BACH Weihnachts-Magnificat HANDEL Utrecht Te Deum (Doyle)

The pairing of Bach’s E flat Magnificat and Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum resonates surprisingly on several levels, although these giants...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2024

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