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SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I

It’s only a year or so since I welcomed Schütz’s third volume of Symphoniae sacrae from these artists alongside a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2017

SCHUBERT Winterreise

One of my musical regrets is that I never heard Fischer-Dieskau live in Winterreise. This DVD, made for German television...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

A SCARLATTI Messa Clementina

Missa Clementina, the first of Scarlatti’s Masses dedicated to Pope Clement XI, was composed in 1705; autograph material in the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

PURCELL O Sing Unto the Lord

When the organist and choirmaster John Scott died in 2015, aged just 59, he left the world of church music...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017

POULENC Mass in G. Motets

Any new recording from The Sixteen is going to be well worth hearing. It almost goes without saying that the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017

Marianne Beate Kielland: Whispering Mozart

Let us get one thing clear. Despite the odd title there is no whispering on this disc. The booklet promises...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2017

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Books 7 & 8

This third and final disc from Les Arts Florissants’ cycle of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi is, in every way, a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2017

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anyone following this Mendelssohn series from the LSO and John Eliot Gardiner will find much to enjoy here: in the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

MAWBY Choral Music

The English Catholic liturgy is far less well served by contemporary composers than its Anglican counterpart. Colin Mawby is a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017

LISZT 15 Songs (Timothy Fallon)

The American tenor Timothy Fallon first came to the attention of UK audiences when he won the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017

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