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SCHNITTKE Psalms of Repentance PÄRT Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis

Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance constitute one of the most technically challenging works in the entire choral literature (having conducted them...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2018

PALESTRINA Missa Confitebor tibi Domine

This is really two quite separate discs. One has the 28 voices of the Yale Schola Cantorum, performing unaccompanied in...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2018

MONTEVERDI Clorinda e Tancredi

Step into the Danieli Palace hotel in Venice and, with a bit of creative imagination, it is possible to commune...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 03/2018

MEDTNER Songs

The resurgence of interest in the music of Nikolay Medtner has tended to focus, understandably enough, on his piano works,...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2018

MAHLER Kindertotenlieder STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung

The catalogue already has a couple of recordings of Mahler’s devastating song-cycle from that most devastating of singers, Brigitte Fassbaender....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018

MACONCHY Héloïse and Abelard

In his informative and substantial essay (unusually placed after the libretto in the booklet), Paul Conway describes Maconchy’s ‘dramatic cantata’...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2018

LUDFORD Missa Videte miraculum

The modern reputation of Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557) was really sealed by the first recordings of The Cardinall’s Musick in the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2018

DEBUSSY Songs Vol 4 (Lucy Crowe)

Hyperion’s excellent Debussy song series has evolved over the years from what was originally a stand-alone recital by Christopher Maltman...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2018

CLÉRAMBAULT Cantates françaises

If you’re unsure whether to listen to a whole French Baroque opera, try the cantata repertoire first. Considered the finest...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2018

BLISS The Beatitudes

Commissioned for Coventry’s new cathedral in 1961, Bliss’s cantata The Beatitudes was destined to be overshadowed by Britten’s War Requiem,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2018

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