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Andrew Watts: A Countertenor Songbook

The countertenor voice is often admired for its purity of tone and clarity of projection, but one shouldn’t disregard its...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Earth & Sky – Choral Premieres

Albion Records serves up another treat for all Vaughan Williams fans: over an hour’s worth of choral fare encompassing an...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

SELICKIS Paradisus Vocis

The music of Andrejs Selickis, a Latvian composer born in 1960, is something of a cultural crossroads. On beginning to...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

A SCARLATTI Cantate da camera

Alessandro Scarlatti composed over 700 chamber cantatas, so we can’t be surprised if a new disc serves up what appear...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2019

RIHM Requiem-Strophen (Jansons)

More than any other comparable text, that for the Missa pro defunctis has assumed an existence outside of any strictly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019

PARRY Twelve Sets of English Lyrics, Vol 3

Gems abound on this third and final volume in what has been a most enterprising survey, and I’m happy to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

MOZART Mass in C minor (ed Clemens Kemme)

Both of the large-scale sacred works of Mozart’s Vienna decade remained unfinished. The reason for the Requiem’s fragmentary state is...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Minton, Kollo)

When Alan Blyth surveyed the extant recordings of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in these pages a couple of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019

LALANDE Grands Motets

These three motets were composed for the Chapelle Royale at Versailles: not the present building, but its predecessor. Though the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2019

HOLLOWAY The Lover's Well

Song forms (or, more generally, vocal music) do not play such an important role in Robin Holloway’s creative output as...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2019

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