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Evensong Live 2019: Anthems and Canticles

If you’ve followed the ‘Evensong Live’ series you’ll know that the ‘live’ bit is more accurate than the ‘Evensong’ bit....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2020

WOLFE Fire in my Mouth

Julia Wolfe’s music often draws on America’s chequered cultural and social history as subject matter for compositions which – in...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020

SIBELIUS Kullervo (Lintu)

The worst possible preparation for Kullervo is, arguably, Sibelius’s later symphonies and tone poems, all of which Hannu Lintu and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2020

OFFENBACH Fables de la Fontaine

The shocking pink packaging says it all. If Offenbach had a colour then this might be it. Then there’s the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020

OCKEGHEM Complete Songs Vol 1

In 1982 Decca Florilegium issued the first-ever recording of Ockeghem’s entire secular music with the Medieval Ensemble of London (10/82)....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2020

MONTEVERDI Vespers (Bestion)

It takes beats, not bars, to realise that we’re not in Venice anymore with this new recording of Monteverdi’s 1610...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2020

LEIGHTON Sacred Choral Works

Time to be honest about Kenneth Leighton. He loved Howells as much as the rest of us; but while Howells’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2020

HENZE Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa)

This beautifully prepared recording issues the most compelling if belated of invitations to consider afresh a seminal work of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

Handel Uncaged: Cantatas for Alto

Part recital and part musical detective drama, ‘Handel Uncaged’ is, ironically, entirely captivating. At its centre is a premiere Handel...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2020

GESUALDO Second Book of Madrigals

The past few months have opened up a rich seam for Gesualdo enthusiasts, with an impressive new release from Exaudi...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019

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