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Kate Lindsey: Tiranno

Last year Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo brought together Handel, Haydn and Alessandro Scarlatti in a fascinating exploration of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021

Freddie De Tommaso: Passione

When I first heard Freddie De Tommaso – as Cassio in Otello at Covent Garden – I noted how he...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021

Isolation Songbook

Some of us baked, others did DIY, and most of us managed our daily walks. Mezzo Helen Charlston and baritone...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021

Hollandse Fragmenten: Early Dutch Polyphony

Twelve years ago the group Capilla Flamenca, under the late and much-lamented Dirk Snellings, produced a marvellous CD of music...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

James Geer: Dreams Melting

Most names here will be familiar to those who know mid-20th-century music in the UK but not necessarily as art-song...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2021

And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide

It’s an evocative title, and the music to go with this Passiontide programme by New York Polyphony is just as...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021

STRAUSS Song Cycles (Daniel Behle)

The primary claim to fame of Richard Strauss’s Krämerspiegel, the bitingly satirical song-cycle he grudgingly wrote to fulfil a historic...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

RATNIECE Vigilia Del Mattino

Santa Ratniece (b1977) is a Latvian composer who has taken a recognisably Latvian, harmonic aesthetic to the intersection between notated...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

PFITZNER; STRAUSS; WAGNER 'Im Abendrot'

After a Beethoven album with Jan Lisiecki (4/20), baritone Matthias Goerne moves on to work with another of DG’s young...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

PÄRT Miserere (Arman)

No, of course we don’t need another recording of choral music by Arvo Pärt. Or so one might have thought:...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2021

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