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DELIBES Lakmé (Pichon)

Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024

Jakub Józef Orlinski: Beyond

Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024

WEELKES 'Gentleman Extraordinary'

Described as ‘Ireland’s premiere project choir’, Resurgam make their first commercial recording in collaboration with The English Cornett and Sackbut...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2024

SCHUBERT Lieder with Orchestra (Benjamin Appl)

‘Are orchestral versions of Schubert’s lieder really necessary?’ asks Benjamin Appl at the start of his booklet note. It’s a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2024

SACCHINI L'abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri

Born in 1730, Antonio Sacchini was a full generation older than Mozart, but his sacred drama written for Lent in...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

POULENC Stabat Mater (Romano)

Founded in 2005, Mathieu Romano’s 17-strong Ensemble Aedes are vocal shapeshifters, slipping seamlessly from opera chorus to chamber choir. French...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024

PEPUSCH Chandos Anthems

Handel was not the only musical visitor at Cannons, the country estate of James Brydges (the Earl of Carnarvon, later...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024

MOZART 'Exsultate, Jubilate!'

‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

HANDEL Un'alma Innamorata (Francesca Aspromonte)

Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024

GILLES Messe des morts

Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024

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