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Gareth Brynmor John: The Children's Hour

The cover photo of grown men in a children’s playground gives one pause: is this what I will look like...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2021

SCHUBERT 'The Path of Life'

In a short note in the booklet of his new album, tenor Ilker Arcayürek explains that he wanted to avoid...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2021

ROSENMÜLLER Magnificat. Sacred Concertos (Meyer)

That Johann Rosenmüller (1619-84) is still something of a rarity in modern performance is particularly surprising considering the quality of...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2021

Lisette Oropesa: Ombra Compagna - Mozart Concert Arias

Mozart once wrote to his father that an aria should ‘fit a singer like a perfectly tailored suit of clothes’....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2021

Ezekiel's Eagle - A Renaissance Brotherhood Celebrates St John the Evangelist

This recording might change how you hear and think about Renaissance polyphony. As pioneered by the likes of Andrew Parrott,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2021

DE MONTE Madrigals and Chansons

The focus on Josquin’s death-anniversary risks overlooking Philippe de Monte, 2021’s other quincentenarian. In past reviews I’ve tended to hedge...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2021

MANOURY lab.oratorium

The plight of migrants crossing the Mediterranean becomes a new Raft of the Medusa in Philippe Manoury’s evening-length, mixed-media piece,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2021

ISAAC Missa Wohlauff gut Gsell von hinnen & other works (Cinquecento)

Heinrich Isaac (c1450-1517) is one of Josquin’s greatest contemporaries. He had a glittering career working for Lorenzo de’ Medici in...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2021

ERLEBACH Lieder (Le Banquet Céleste)

Recordings of music by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – the much-admired Kapellmeister of the court at Rudolstadt from 1681 to his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2021

BERIO 'Berio to Sing' (Lucile Richardot)

It was only a matter of time before Les Cris de Paris got around to the Cries of London. In...

Reviewed in issue 08/2021

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