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HANDEL Almira (O'Dette & Stubbs)

Handel’s first opera, Almira (January 1705), is the only one of his juvenile works for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre that survives...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

DONIZETTI Enrico di Borgogna (De Marchi)

When a director turns an opera eroica into a meta-theatrical farce, one has to question whether she happens to believe...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin's Spanish Legacy

All roads lead to Josquin, even those routed through the Iberian peninsula. This superb new recording from Owen Rees and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020

Fading (The Gesualdo Six)

Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

The Contrast: English Poetry in Song

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

TOMKINS O Give Thanks Unto the Lord: Choral Works

Along with Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons (and, later, Purcell), Thomas Tomkins was a member of the Chapel Royal – the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Barenboim)

Music for the Faust drama? Goethe always proposed Mozart, albeit posthumously, but Schumann – despite nerves about composing music for...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2020

PARRY Judith (Vann)

Hands up: how many of us have laughed at Ernest Newman’s quip about Parry ‘sickening for another oratorio’ without ever...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020

MATHIAS Choral Music

Even in more reflective vein, as with the gently swaying Ave verum corpus completed shortly before his death in 1992,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020

JANČEVSKIS Aeternum and other choral works

Jēkabs Jančevskis (b1992) personifies the next generation of Latvian choral composers after Ēriks Ešenvalds, his teacher. On the evidence of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020

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