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LEITH Last Days

‘A place where flecks of magic are chipped or hacked from mundanity – where the familiar and domestic are heightened...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024

LANGGAARD Antikrist (Zilias)

With the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2023 staging of Antikrist, Rued Langgaard’s only opera received arguably its highest-profile production since it...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2024

JANÁČEK The Excursions of Mr Brouček (Kyzlink)

Surreal? Avant-garde? Or just sloppy? In the booklet notes for this new recording of The Excursions of Mr Brouček, annotator...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024

CILEA Gloria (Cilluffo)

If you enjoy Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, you might be pleasantly surprised by its successor, Gloria. That’s no aspersion on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024

Queen of Hearts

The Gesualdo Six, an ensemble of male voices, was formed in Cambridge in 2014 to perform Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2024

The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy

Though Thomas Hardy is best known as the author of well-known (and for the most part) fatalist novels, he aspired...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2024

Magnificat 4

This final album of Andrew Nethsingha’s acclaimed ‘Magnificat’ series features recordings made during 2022. It also marks the close of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024

Im wachen Traume

At the risk of sounding like a damaged sound file (as opposed to a broken record): did anybody listen to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024

Hymns from Merton

As fewer young people are exposed to the treasures of Anglican hymnody and a number of misguided senior clergy seem...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024

Harmonies of Devotion

This Venetian Baroque programme is a departure for Contrapunctus – discographically at least. It views the Italian Baroque through the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024

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