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Benjamin Appl: Forbidden Fruit

This is not the first concept album based around the original sin in the Garden of Eden. It’s not even...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2023

Robyn Allegra Parton: Burnished Gold

It is refreshing to encounter a singer – Robyn Allegra Parton – whose gifts of curation are it would seem...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

R STRAUSS Lieder (Thomas Laske)

The name of the German baritone Thomas Laske is new to me, as indeed is that of his superb partner...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2023

SELLE Johannes Passion (Adamske) ROLLE Lukas-Passion (Willens)

These two Lutheran Passions from opposite ends of the Baroque spectrum show how approaches to setting the gospel accounts of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

SAARIAHO Reconnaissance: Choral Music

The death of Kaija Saariaho, so soon after the first London performances of her opera Innocence and the BBC/Barbican ‘Total...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023

PALESTRINA Masses Vol 9 (Christophers)

This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us expected. Poor...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2023

MORALES Missa Mille regretz. Missa Desilde al cavallero

This is the Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis, founded in 2011, as opposed to the older ensembles of the same name...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

MACMILLAN; TAVENER; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Choral works (O’Donnell)

James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Orchestral Songs (Haselböck)

Liszt’s output exists in a state of flux, since many of his works (especially his songs) appear in multiple versions....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2023

LEIGHTON Every Living Creature

This welcome new selection of Kenneth Leighton’s unaccompanied choral music brings a clutch of premiere recordings, none more valuable than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

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