The title might make it sound a bit like a Danish death-metal album, but don’t be fooled: it’s a collection of music by the great Tudor composer John Taverner, one of the last of the composer of that period who still wrote in what could be called a late-Medieval style, characterized by extensive use of melisma and harmonies that still have those slight sawtooth edges that would later be smoothed out during the Reformation. As always, the singing by Alamire is outstanding.
Tre Voci, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sivan Magen, Kim Kashkashian
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Brian Baumbusch: Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet
Nata Swara, JACK Quartet
The Splendour of Florence with a Burgundian Resonance
Gothic Voices
Fellow Traveler: The Complete String Quartet Works of John Adams
Attacca Quartet
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester
Bach: The Art of Fugue
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
Praise to the Lord: Hymn Favourites from St Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Goss, Christopher Dearnley, John Scott, William Croft, John Roberts, Friedrich Silcher, Arthur Somervell, Herbert Stanley Oakeley, John Darwall, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edwin George Monk, Clement Cotterill Scholefield, Hubert Parry, John Stainer, Felix Mendelssohn, The English Brass Ensemble, English Brass Ensemble
Russian Medieval Chant
Deisus, Sergey Krivobokov, Anonymous 4
Tůma: Te Deum, Sinfonia ex C, Missa Veni Pater Pauperum
Frantisek Tůma, Roman Válek, Czech Ensemble Baroque
