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SCHÜTZ St John Passion

Along with most of his other narrative works, Schütz’s three Passion settings date from the last decade of his life....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

SCHUBERT Lieder

‘Slow and soft’ were dominant epithets in David Patrick Stearns’s review of Florian Boesch’s earlier Schubert recital (Hyperion, 3/14). In...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

MADIN Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV

‘Possibly of Irish origin’, says Grove, but the booklet-note states firmly that Henry Madin (1698-1748) was the son of a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016

MACHAUT A Burning Heart

In this third instalment of the series, The Orlando Consort present a kind of minimalist Machaut. Most of the songs...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

The Love Songs of Jehan de Lescurel

Jehan de Lescurel’s known songs are all in a single manuscript from the second decade of the 14th century, and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2016

HANDEL Coronation Anthems

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s scribbles on his order of service reveal that the music did not go smoothly during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare

These two works were composed either side of Castelnouvo-Tedesco’s emigration to the United States in 1939 following Mussolini’s introduction of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

CAMPRA Requiem. De Profundis

The manuscript of André Campra’s Messe des morts in the Bibliothèque Nationale does not reveal when or why it was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

BRAUNFELS Orchestral Songs

Hansjörg Albrecht’s survey of Braunfels’s orchestral Lieder gets off to a strange start, since just over half of its first...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

BANTOCK Omar Khayyám

Composed between 1906 and 1909, cast in three parts and lasting some three hours and 20 minutes, Granville Bantock’s thrillingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

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