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Imaginario: De un Libro de Música de Vihuela

Inspired by seven surviving vihuela songbooks published between 1536 and 1576, this programme proffers a newly imagined book ‘as if...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2019

The Sixteen: An Enduring Voice

In addition to accompanying their 2019 Choral Pilgrimage, The Sixteen’s latest disc also serves as a celebration of the choir’s...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2019

VERDI Requiem (Thielemann)

Although Christian Thielemann is primarily associated with the Germanic greats, he – like his one-time mentor Herbert von Karajan –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

SONDHEIM Follies. Company

We should celebrate the fact that within the space of a year London has played host to stagings of not...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

PERGOLESI A Neapolitan Stabat Mater

By now, one could assemble a pretty little discography of well-known works (from Allegri’s Miserere to Stravinsky’s Mass) presented in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Larsson, Skelton)

Adám Fischer’s fascinating (if slightly eccentric) booklet notes speak of the words of Das Lied von der Erde being almost...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

LISZT Via Crucis

Reinbert de Leeuw last recorded Liszt’s pious Via Crucis in 1986 with the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Philips, 5/86), and if...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

KÜNSTEL Markus Passion

The Franconian organist Johann Georg Künstel (c1645-1695) worked as a schoolteacher in Ansbach and later became court organist and then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019

FAURÉ Requiem POULENC Figure humaine

Founded 10 years ago by the conductor Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes – formerly Ensemble Vocal Aedes – have made distinguished...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

BYRD The Great Service & Anthems

Given the renown that The Great Service has enjoyed more or less from the off, introductions are superfluous. There’s nothing...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2019

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