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Divine Music: An English Songbook (Iestyn Davies)

Divinity, Iestyn Davies muses in the booklet notes for his latest recital, is a term we use these days as...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

Broken Branches (Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe)

'Discomfort’ is the unexpected emotion guitarist Sean Shibe singles out in his introduction to ‘Broken Branches’. It was his discomfort...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

WILLAERT St John Passion

If you visit the Palazzo Colonna in Rome to admire Annibale Carracci’s remarkable The Bean Eater, along the same wall...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023

STANFORD Requiem (Brabbins)

While much of Stanford’s large-scale music suffered increasing neglect after his death in 1924, his Requiem, commissioned for the Birmingham...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2023

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Andreas Bauer Kanabas)

Many artists have had lockdown projects, but few can have been as fundamental as Andreas Bauer Kanabas’s. As the German...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023

SCHUBERT Elysium (Carolyn Sampson)

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are recording so much these days that it’s hard to find a new vocal disc...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023

SCARLATTI Dixit Dominus. Mass (Monks)

We know very little of Francesco Scarlatti, whose reputation has always been overshadowed by those of his elder brother Alessandro...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023

OBRECHT Missa Maria Zart

It was described by my colleague Fabrice Fitch as ‘one of Renaissance music’s hidden gems’, but I think it’s now...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2023

LIGETI Complete Works for a cappella Choir

Tying in with the composer’s centenary, this new double album of Ligeti’s a cappella choral music vies with the classic...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2023

HANDEL; BLOW Coronation Anthems

Two albums of anthems written for the coronations of English kings, recorded in late 2022 for release on April 28,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023

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