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PENDERECKI conducts Penderecki, Vol 2: Choral Works

This two-disc set is an anthology of Penderecki’s very substantial output of choral music, in superb performances under the composer’s direction. The first...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017

MIELCZEWSKI Missa O gloriosa domina. Benedictio et claritas

The Sixteen’s Polish series continues apace with this fine disc of music by the Italian-trained Marcin Mielczewski. The Italian connection...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017

MARTINŮ The Epic of Gilgamesh

Martinů initially described The Epic of Gilgamesh as ‘a kind of profane secular cantata’ but later asserted that it was ‘neither an...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

LUDFORD Missa Dominica

Ludford’s Lady Masses stand apart from his more widely recorded Festal Masses for their alternatim settings and unusual three-part scoring....

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017

GRAUN Weihnachtsoratorium

An oratorio by Carl Heinrich Graun on a Christmas subject is preserved in an anonymous manuscript copy in the Library of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017

DURUFLÉ; HOWELLS Requiem

Former St Paul’s Cathedral music director John Scott worked at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, until his early death in 2015. While...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS An English Requiem

Listeners familiar with Ein deutsches Requiem may experience some cognitive dissonance from the outset, hearing the closed English ‘are’ vowel...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

JS BACH Leipzig Cantatas BWV101, 115, 103

Another gift of relatively unfamiliar Bach cantatas from Philippe Herreweghe allows us to drop in on the composer’s second Leipzig...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

Water and Fire: Handel Revisited

What do we want from our Handel, and what makes a successful modern-times transcription of a Baroque work? These have...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

New Worlds: Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends

If this disc is Bill Murray’s belated attempt to launch a crossover career as a crooner, it’s an unusual way...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

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