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HANDEL Semele (Gardiner)

Semele is a work that deserves more recordings than it has had. What should by rights be considered the greatest...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2020

ALWYN Miss Julie (Oramo)

How many operas have been recorded more often than they’ve been staged? With the arrival of this superb new account...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020

ADAM Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Rouland)

Adolphe Adam is most familiar to audiences today as the composer of Giselle, the quintessential Romantic ballet, but the majority...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2020

James Gilchrist: Solitude

By sheer coincidence, ‘Solitude’ appears to be tailor-made for mid-2020, though this new disc of music by Purcell, Schubert, Dove...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2020

In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Anthem Vol 2

The name of this album may be familiar. Used by the Dunedin Consort for their release in 2003 with Delphian,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2020

The Hermes Experiment: Here We Are

Rather like the underground laboratory wherein the eponymous scientific experiment took place, The Hermes Experiment’s calm exterior often hides a...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

The Call of Rome (The Sixteen)

The draw of Italy for mid-16th-century northern European composers – oltremontani; ‘those from the other side of the alps’ –...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2020

VIVALDI Motets. Stabat Mater (Oberti)

Vivaldi’s motet Clarae stellae, scintillate (1715) was composed for Geltruda della Violetta (1684-1752), a talented musician in the coro of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2020

SMYTH The Prison

The Prison (1929-30) was Ethel Smyth’s last major work, an hour-long oratorio-style work described by its composer as a symphony,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

RICHTER Voices

Troubled times often prompt creative responses that bring out the human qualities lying within us – tolerance, compassion, dignity and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

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