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Illuminate

It’s tough luck on this new performance of Britten’s masterwork that it came my way so soon after I’d revisited...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2025

The Huehuetenango Songbook: Music from 16th-Century Guatemala

From the rich store of Renaissance music preserved in the Guatemalan town of San Miguel Acatán, tenor Jonatan Alvarado and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2025

Nicolò Balducci: Confidenze - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

So far young male soprano Nicolò Balducci has stuck to safe territory for his solo albums: music written for castratos....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2025

TŮMA Vesperae

Roman Valék and the musicians of Czech Ensemble Baroque continue to prove themselves staunch advocates for the music of František...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2025

TELEMANN Ino: Opera Arias for Soprano (Amanda Forsythe)

Telemann’s Ino (c1765), composed in his 80s, is a setting of Karl Wilhelm Ramler’s poem based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Ino’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025

SCHUBERT Lieder (Philippe Jaroussky)

Following a 2020 Wigmore Hall recital devoted to Schubert and rapturous response to his Schubert song videos uploaded to social...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2025

RIGEL Le Souffle de La Revolution

Henri-Joseph Rigel is not a name you should feel bad about not knowing. Forty years ago, when I was doing...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2025

MARTINAITYTĖ Aletheia - Choral Works

I was mesmerised by Ondine’s album of orchestral works by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (4/21) but then, that’s the whole point of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2025

A HUGO 'Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo'

Victor Hugo’s younger daughter Adèle (1830-1915) has long fascinated artists and biographers alike, and the tale of her struggles with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2025

HANDEL Jephtha (Glover)

Since 2002 Jane Glover has been Director of Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra – despite their name a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2025

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