
Those who take seriously the task of writing about music […]
This is a most welcome reissue, originally released on Hyperion in 1993. It makes a perfect companion to the newly issued Morales program from The
Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor never achieved the repertoire status of, say, Britten’s Missa Brevis in D or Requiems by Fauré or Howells or
Although the “big work” here is the Christmas mass Hodie Christus natus est, the biggest musical thrills (if such a word can be used in
There’s some wonderful music on this CD, highlighting some of Victoria’s woefully under-recorded polychoral works–among them the eight-part Mass Ave Regina caelorum and motets Dixit
Like the music of Bach, Palestrina’s masses, motets, and Magnificats reveal new facets and deeper insights with each hearing. Although the music on this recording,
Zoltán Kodaly’s lyric-dramatic Missa Brevis is one of the delights of choral literature. It was prepared by the composer in two versions, one with full
James MacMillan is a man of conviction, and his most constantly felt musical message is his Catholicism. The liner-note writer claims that MacMillan “knows that
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