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Ed Lyon: 17th Century Playlist

It’s a lovely concept – an album of the 17th century’s greatest hits, where only the catchiest, most irrepressibly infectious...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2019

WEIR Airs from another Planet: Chamber music and songs

From the start of Nuits d’Afrique, the flute weaves its sensuous lines around the soprano voice and echoes of Ravel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2019

SMYTH Mass in D. Overture to 'The Wreckers'

When John Steane reviewed Philip Brunelle’s Virgin Classics recording of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D (1891, rev 1925) in August...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

PENALOSA Lamentationes

It’s wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa (1470-1528), and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

PALESTRINA Vol 8 (The Sixteen)

The liturgical moment of the Eucharist dominates this new helping of Palestrina (much of it for eight voices): it accounts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2019

LISZT Three Petrarch Sonnets (Andrè Schuen & Daniel Heide)

This recital marks the start of a new survey of Liszt’s complete songs from the Weimar-based pianist Daniel Heide. With...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019

JOSQUIN; BAULDEWEYN Masses

As one of the most important accounts of Josquin’s Masses in recent decades, Peter Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

GRIEG Lyric Music (Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn)

As with September’s Recording of the Month (from the pianist Denis Kozhukhin), Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are once more brought out...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019

JANÁCEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared DVORÁK Biblical Songs

Only months after Nicky Spence’s superb new recording of Janáček’s haunting song-cycle (Hyperion, 8/19), here comes another account of The...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019

CHARLTON Cloud and Mirrors

Composer, performer, educator – Alan Charlton (1970-2018) packed a great deal into his all-too brief life, and this release (mostly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019

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