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MOZART Requiem (Nelson)

Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)

The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024

LUDFORD 'Ymaginacions’

For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024

LANGGAARD Songs (Louise McClelland Jacobsen)

Songs comprise a substantial part of Rued Langgaard’s earlier output, affording an overview of how his music evolved during his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024

HOWARD The Anvil

Emily Howard’s choral work The Anvil was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival in 2019 to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2024

FRANCK Les Béatitudes (Madaras)

Joël-Marie Fauquet’s booklet note for this recording of Les Béatitudes (1879) is a model of its kind, as it does...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024

CHARPENTIER; DESMAREST Te Deum

The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

CALDARA Gloria RESPIGHI Lauda per la Natività del Signore

Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

BARTÓK Village Scenes JANÁČEK Říkadla STRAVINSKY Les noces

This is a scintillating collection. Les noces may be a work audiences either love or hate (is it a concert...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

JS BACH Cantatas 56 & 82

Two favourite Bach cantatas for bass voice sung by Christoph Prégardien, one of the most respected lyric tenors of his...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024

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