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BENDA Medea (Bosch)

Two generations before Beethoven set speech against music to such telling effect in the dungeon scenes of Egmont and Fidelio,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2021

BARTÓK Bluebeard's Castle (Mälkki)

Out of the darkness, a voice (Géza Szilvay), a whispered invitation to enter the darkest recesses of Duke Bluebeard’s mind....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

The Trials of Tenducci: A Castrato in Ireland

The life of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci reads like a fictional bodice-ripper. Affairs, assignations, imprisonment and scandal followed the celebrated Italian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2021

Magnificat Vol 2 (Nethsingha)

There is a treasure trove here, of information and reflection as well as music. Rowan Williams, Julian Anderson and Andrew...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2021

Louise Alder: Chère Nuit - French Songs

Here’s a peach of a recital disc, wonderfully programmed. Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton begin with the familiar – Ravel’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021

SCHWEITZER Die Auferstehung Christi. Missa Brevis Cantata

Anton Schweitzer – a few years younger than Haydn and dead a few years before Mozart – was mainly active...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021

SCHUMANN 'Album für Die Frau' (Carolyn Sampson)

With so much awareness afoot over repressive patriarchal cultures past and present, how can – and does – anyone record...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021

SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire

‘A journey, starting with drinking wine with your eyes and eventually deriving sexual pleasure from hanging yourself in the night’...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021

MCDOWELL Sacred Choral Music

Paweł Łukaszewski; Ēriks Ešenvalds; Owain Park; Jaakko Mäntyjärvi; Cecilia McDowall: since Stephen Layton arrived at Trinity College Cambridge in 2007...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2021

BYRD "1588" Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of sadnes and pietie

Published in 1588, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs was Byrd’s first English-texted collection. Some individual pieces are very well known, but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2021

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