Issue 36:4
Mar/Apr 2013
Magazine Contents

Collections: Choral

The subtitle of this disc is “American Inspiration and the Modern Madrigal,” and one listen to the opening selection will clue you in as to what’s...

“Children and the common people are accustomed to transform the great and sublime into a sport, and even a farce,” writes Goethe. This observation might serve...

Imported at the same time as Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ , this recent recording offers 23 hymns from the largest surviving 18th-century Icelandic songbook,...

This is the first volume of a survey of French sacred music in a very generous sampling of mostly 15th- and 16th-century pieces. The largest work...

Benjamin Coelho is a Brazilian bassoonist whose virtuosity has brought him to concert halls around the world and to a professorship at the University of Iowa....

This program consists of works dating from the Renaissance except for John McCabe’s setting of a text used earlier by Wiliam Cornysh (the younger, died 1523)....

Passion as it is meant in this context is not a modern term, but appropriate for the album’s title even considering its musical vintage: the 14th...