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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Mass in G minor (Nethsingha)

‘O radiant Luminary’: composers down the ages have attempted to catch light in music, but the opening of Prayer to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

SCHÜTZ Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

Following his intriguing Machaut/Stravinsky Mass pairing (5/17), Simon-Pierre Bestion offers us a Resurrection History similarly recontextualised, associating it with selections...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018

RICCHEZZA Los Santos Niños

Antonio Florio and his enterprising accomplices continue to mine the rich seams of forgotten Neapolitan Baroque composers. Donato Ricchezza (c1650-1722)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018

PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible (Strobel)

Purists immune to the charms of Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan’s Prokofiev for Two (see page 65) might prefer the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Masonic Works – Cantatas and Funeral Music

With one exception, Mozart’s works for Masonic functions are among his most neglected. True, they are mainly occasional works, often...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

Messa a quattro voci et salmi of 1650, Vol 2

Monteverdi published two monumental collections of church music during his lifetime (in 1610 and 1641), but these must have been...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018

Dorothee Mields: Monteverdi - La dolce vita

This delectable collection of Monteverdi for soprano and ensemble is titled ‘La dolce vita’, and while it’s a perfect fit...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

MARTIN; MARTINŮ 'The Secret Mass'

This is an intriguing programme. Though one might initially think that it is simply inspired by the juxtaposition of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Wunderhorn Lieder (Volle). Symphony No 10 (Thielemann)MAHLER Wunderhorn Lieder (Volle). Symphony No 10 (Thielemann)

It may be appropriate that a concert given on the centenary of Mahler’s death should contain his last completed symphonic...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Pecková, Samek)

Reiner Riehn’s completion of Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement of Das Lied von der Erde has made several appearances on disc,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018

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