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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Discoveries. Purer than Pearl

Discoveries don’t come much more rewarding than Vaughan Williams’s Three Nocturnes. Dating from 1908 (the year of his tutelage with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

TALLIS Spem in alium

With Spem in alium (or, in its English guise, Sing and glorify), The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their Tallis explorations in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016

PÄRT Da pacem Domine. The Deer's Cry

The arrival of a new disc by the Latvian Radio Choir is always guaranteed to quicken the reviewer’s pulse. They...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2016

LEO Sacred Works

If &cetera is not a name that rings a bell, it’s because this is a relatively new period ensemble, founded...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2016

JOSQUIN Missa di dadi. Missa Une mousse de Biscaye

One of the sad things about Josquin research is that works are judged spurious – or even just possibly spurious...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2016

FURRER Works for Choir and Ensemble

Ambitious ensemble works such as Nuun and operas including Fama, Begehren and Westenbuch (recorded on Kairos, along with as much...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2016

FAURÉ Requiem

The St Thomas Choir of Men & Boys take John Rutter’s edition of Fauré’s 1893 score as the basis for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

Encuentro

This fascinating disc finds Javier Perianes and flamenco singer Estrella Morente shedding new light on the influence of Spanish folksong...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

The Christmas Oratorio has proved strangely resistant to the theories of recent decades concerning Bach’s performing forces. The only previous...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2016

Transcendental

There must be others but I have only ever come across one release with these four sets of studies: an...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

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