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Passacalle de La Follie

Regular collaborators Philippe Jaroussky and Christina Pluhar join forces again for a French Baroque entertainment exploring airs de cour and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023

Randall Scotting: Lovesick

Randall Scotting is an American countertenor who stepped in at short notice to replace Tim Mead when Covent Garden mounted...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2023

Alla Milanese

This well-structured recital considers a well-represented idiom (the genesis of the Baroque style in northern Italy) from an unfamiliar standpoint....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023

TÜÜR Canticum Canticorum Caritatis

This is a gorgeously sung collection of Tüür’s choral music, beginning with a setting of the Trisagion, used in services...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023

STRAVINSKY Les Noces (1919) RAVEL Bolero

This account of Les noces marks the recording debut of the complete work in its 1919 instrumentation that was supposedly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Rachel Willis-Sørensen)

For her second recording for Sony, Rachel Willis-Sørensen opts for Strauss, the composer with whom she is probably most closely...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Requiem PAISIELLO Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon

‘Mozart Requiem*’, says the cover, the asterisk leading to the rubric ‘Version Paris, 1804’. Thirteen years after Mozart’s death and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

GRIGORJEVA Music For Male-Voice Choir

The Ukrainian composer Galina Grigorjeva (b1962) has always had a natural affinity for the voice, and in particular choral writing....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023

BOULANGER, N & L Les Heures Claires (the Complete Songs)

Despite herself, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) is increasingly established as a composer. She was known to describe her youthful pieces as...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023

BONDS Credo. Simon Bore the Cross

Margaret Bonds (1913 72) studied with Florence Price at high school (she also had tuition later from Roy Harris and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

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