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Voces8: Winter

Since its foundation in 2005 the British ensemble Voces8 has drawn glowing plaudits for the impeccable quality of its balance...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2016

A Verlaine Songbook

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have turned to Verlaine settings for their new album for BIS, drawing inevitable comparisons with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

Ben Johnson: Sonnets

Sonnets from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Auden afford a wide scope of musical settings. Ben Johnson’s selection, which had its...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2016

Mater ora filium: Music for Epiphany

Taking inspiration from the seasons of the Anglican year – Advent, Passiontide, Pentecost, Easter – Graham Ross and the mixed-voice...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016

Dolce Vita

With this new disc, Jonas Kaufmann offers something like a transalpine equivalent to his disc of the German repertoire popularised...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

SCHOENBERG Kol Nidre SHOSTAKOVICH Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Schoenberg’s 1938 setting of the Jewish prayer of atonement certainly succeeds in its aim to ‘vitriolise out the cello sentimentality...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2016

REGER Orchestral Songs

The title for this disc is something of a misnomer, since none of Reger’s original works for voice and orchestra...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

MUHLY/TEITUR Confessions

A song describing a cat stuck up a tree, another about the smell of a printer, and (even more bizarrely)...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2016

JUON Lieder

Paul Juon (1872-1940) was born in Russia into a German-Swiss expat family and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, though from...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

VAN GILSE Ein Lebenmesse

Completed in 1904, when Jan van Gilse was only 23, Eine Lebensmesse was the work that put him on the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

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