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MARTINŮ Songs (Janková, Král, Kahánek)

This deeply touching disc gathers together four sets of Martinů’s songs, both early and late. Two thirds of it is...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

LOEWE Das Sühnopfer des Neuen Bundes (Passion Oratorio)

For all his industry and popular success in the oratorio genre, Carl Loewe is almost exclusively associated outside Germany with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

LEIGHTON; MARTIN Masses for Double Choir

Kenneth Leighton’s and Frank Martin’s Masses begin almost identically, and for a time the similarities between them are so obvious...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

HANDEL Judas Maccabaeus (Cummings)

Granted, Judas Maccabaeus is never likely to be a favourite in Scotland. But Handel’s celebration of ‘Butcher’ Cumberland’s victory over...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral Works

There are just four extant choral works by Maurice Duruflé, which, by good fortune, are easily accommodated on a single...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

DUFAY Lament for Constantinople & other songs

This isn’t the first recording of Dufay’s chansons to appear since the Medieval Ensemble of London’s complete survey nearly 40...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2019

CAVALLI Missa 1660

To celebrate the Treaty of the Pyrenees between France and Spain, and to mark the consequent wedding of the young...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2019

BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust (Rattle)

If a single achievement symbolises the British ‘lead’ in performing Berlioz over the composer’s homeland, it could well be the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH St John Passion (Serov)

A Soviet decree in 1928 forbade performances of Bach’s Passions by the State Academic Cappella more than twice a year,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Cantatas BWV 169 & 82. BWV 33, 17 & 99

The sublime lullaby ‘Schlummert ein’, surely the most searching and sensuous meditation on the favourite Pietist metaphor of death-as-sleep, has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

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