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HAYDN L’incontro improvviso (Gaigg)

Nearly a century after the 1683 siege of Vienna, with the Ottomans now at a safe distance, Austria was in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

CORIGLIANO The Lord of Cries (Rose)

In the literary world, this opera would be described as a page-turner. Logic seems just out of reach in The...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2023

ATTERBERG Aladin (Alber)

History is full of stage works whose auspicious launch did not translate into frequent revival, Kurt Atterberg’s fourth opera being...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2023

Wonderland

Don’t be fooled by the cartoon cover – you haven’t accidentally bought The King’s Singers’ Disney disc (released back in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Transfigured

Post-Karajan, perhaps, performances of Verklärte Nacht have been getting slower and slower, wringing out ever more juice from its pages,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook

A disc of Shakespeare song-settings – we all know the drill. Except, here, we really don’t. This new recital from...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Anthems Vol 1

During the past 17 years Stephen Layton has nurtured the chapel choir of Trinity College Cambridge into arguably the pre-eminent...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023

TAN DUN Buddha Passion

In 2000 Tan Dun was one of four composers commissioned by Helmuth Rilling to write new Passion settings. His Water...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

SHEPPARD Missa Cantate

That Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have – after 50 years of concerts – never before recorded Sheppard’s Cantate...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Mass No 6 (Welser-Möst)

Recordings of Schubert’s sacred music don’t exactly grow on trees, and even though his final Mass is perhaps the best-known...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

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