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Advent Live

In the rush to grasp the glittering, commercial excesses of Christmas the meditative, preparatory season of Advent is frequently overlooked....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2018

ZENDER Schubert's Winterreise

Released to mark the 25th anniversary of the premiere, this new recording of Hans Zender’s ‘composed interpretation’ of Winterreise marks...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018

WIDMANN Arche (Nagano)

With Arche, Jörg Widmann has (at the age of 45) delivered the kind of history-of-everything evening-length oratorio that, in retrospect,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018

PURCELL Songs & Dances (Tim Mead)

Many of Purcell’s songs and dance tunes are such ‘standards’ that there really is no need to worry about a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018

PARRY Songs of Farewell (Quinney)

Another stellar release to mark 100 years since the death of Hubert Parry – and cannily programmed, too, with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018

JOSQUIN Miserere mei Deus

Like most of his contemporaries, Josquin’s motet production has been overshadowed by his Masses; in fact the last all-motet anthology...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018

HANDEL Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Dunedin Consort)

You certainly got your money’s worth, both in quantity and quality, when Handel was around. On St Cecilia’s Day, November...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018

GRAUPNER Duo-Kantaten

Poor Christoph Graupner. The general consensus about the composer (a pupil of Kuhnau’s and a contemporary of Telemann and Handel)...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

GETTY Beauty Come Dancing

Opera and song are at the heart of Gordon Getty’s work and spring as much from his love for poetry...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2018

FÉVIN Missa Ave Maria. Salve sancta parens

Antoine de Févin (c1470-1511/12) is not currently well known, despite his works having travelled widely in his own day and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2018

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