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SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Delila (Pappano)

Richard Jones’s production of Samson et Dalila polarised opinion when it opened at Covent Garden in 2022. I didn’t see...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

LULLY Atys (Rousset)

It was with Atys, staged and recorded in 1987 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark the tercentenary...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

HANDEL Alcina (Minkowski)

Alcina was first staged on April 16, 1735, at John Rich’s new theatre at Covent Garden, where it ran for...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

DONIZETTI Chiara e Serafina (Quatrini)

As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024

Veronique Gens: Paysage

French vocal music could not have a finer ambassador’ was how I closed my citation for our Artist of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

New Millennium

Between 2007 and 2022 Andrew Nethsingha raised the already high standard of the Chapel Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

Masters of Imitation

I’ll get straight to the point and say that this new release from The Sixteen, celebrating the Renaissance tradition of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024

Lumen Christi: A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil

Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories (Hollingworth)

Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024

STAINER The Crucifixion

Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

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