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LE JEUNE Le Printemps

Claude Le Jeune (1528/30-1600) was one of the more adventurous composers of the late 16th century and part of a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2020

LASSUS Inferno (Reuss)

As with Brahms, Lassus’s late style tends towards concision and seriousness – words he himself used to describe these qualities....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2020

HANDEL Continuo Cantatas

The harpsichordist Christian Kjos presents five continuo cantatas composed in Italy between late 1706 and early 1710. Nice, che fa?...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

CLEVE Missa Rex Babylonis (Cinquecento)

Since their inception, Cinquecento have shone a light on the Imperial Habsburg court, which hitherto had warranted barely a metaphorical...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2020

BONONCINI La Conversione Di Maddalena (La Venexiana)

Before Bononcini joined Handel writing operas for London’s King’s Theatre during the 1720s, the highly esteemed Modenese composer, cellist and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

BEETHOVEN Lieder & Folksongs (Ian Bostridge)

We could do a lot worse in the Beethoven year than listen more to his songs. Too easily overlooked, they...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

KERNIS Color Wheel

Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony heroically meet the challenges of two large orchestral works by Aaron Jay Kernis that...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2020

JERUSALEM Mass in G

Despite the Spanish form of his name, Ignacio de Jerusalem (1707 69) was Italian, born Ignazio Gerusalemme in Lecce. Like...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

DANIELPOUR The Passion of Yeshua

Richard Danielpour is a composer of prolific accomplishment. He has contributed to the realms of concert and operatic music with...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2020

ABEL The Cave of Wondrous Voice

The title of this new disc of chamber music by Mark Abel comes from a song-cycle set to texts by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2020

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