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Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms (Matthias Goerne)

The transience of human existence is the leitmotif of Matthias Goerne’s latest recital, charting a journey from sleep and oblivion...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

Fatma Said: Kaleidoscope

Fatma Said’s debut album ‘El Nour’ rightly caused a stir on its release in 2020, earning the Egyptian soprano Gramophone...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Hildegard Portraits

This is a Hildegard recital with a twist, the life and work of the saint (canonised in 2012) interpreted not...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson)

Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook has attracted many great pairings of singers in the past. This new recording, however, makes a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2022

SENFL Motets and Songs

I’ve long admired the Regensburg-based ensemble Singer Pur for their egoless music-making. Recent highlights are two sets (also on this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi (Timothy Fallon)

With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2022

Stranger: Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly (Nicolas Phan)

In a BBC Radio 3 podcast first aired in 2016, composer Nico Muhly stated that one of the things that...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2022

HANDEL Chandos Anthems

Over a dinner last month, I was discussing with a friend what the French mean by inégal. ‘It’s not a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

HAHN; SAINT-SAËNS 'À la lumière'

This often fascinating album finds Christophe Grapperon and Accentus surveying choral music by Saint-Saëns and Hahn, much of it a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

BERKELEY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; WARLOCK 'Colourise'

It was in early 2020, while hunting for repertoire for the London Choral Sinfonia, that its artistic director Michael Waldron...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022

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