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Messes de Barcelone et d’Apt

This programme is built around two Mass settings and two manuscripts thought to preserve polyphonic music from the Papal liturgy...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. 9 Sacred Choruses

Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Liturgy has a fundamental place in the history of Russian sacred choral music. It was published...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2019

SCHÜTZ Psalmen & Friedensmusiken

Over a decade, 19 volumes and many hours of psalms, anthems, Passions, madrigals and motets later, Hans-Christoph Rademann’s recording of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

C SCHUMANN Complete Songs

It’s good to be able to welcome a survey of Clara Schumann’s songs for the composer’s anniversary – they more...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

ROSSINI Petite Messe solennelle (Berndt)

The Petite Messe solennelle was first performed in Paris in 1864 as a chamber work for 12 singers, two pianos...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

OBRECHT Masses

The Fra Bernado label is certainly fulfilling its mission statement to cover ‘white spots on the map of early music’...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

MARTINSSON Into Eternity

Unless one happens to be dealing with Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho or Steve Reich, it’s difficult to suppress the surge...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

LULLY Dies Irae. De Profundis. Te Deum

These three ceremonial grand motets were included in Lully’s publication of assorted Motets à deux choeurs de la Chapelle du...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2019

LEIFS Edda II: The Lives of the Gods

If Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is the glossed-up, ‘Hollywood’ version of Wotan’s shenanigans, this is the urtext. Eleven years...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

JOSQUIN Adieu mes Amours

Singing self-accompanied on the lute was considered a mark of the true Renaissance gentleman, but the two functions could be...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2019

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