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Michael Spyres: In The Shadows
We’ve got used to the fact that Michael Spyres albums take us on unexpected journeys, often with unexpected diversions on...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2024
WAGNER Parsifal (Jordan)
Stage+ hosts the film of this Russian-prison Parsifal, directed (via Zoom) by Kirill Serebrennikov in Vienna in 2021. Anyone discomfited...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
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
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus
This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'
If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)
Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus
It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater
By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets
In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)
Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
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