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HANDEL Chandos Anthems

Over a dinner last month, I was discussing with a friend what the French mean by inégal. ‘It’s not a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

HAHN; SAINT-SAËNS 'À la lumière'

This often fascinating album finds Christophe Grapperon and Accentus surveying choral music by Saint-Saëns and Hahn, much of it a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

BERKELEY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; WARLOCK 'Colourise'

It was in early 2020, while hunting for repertoire for the London Choral Sinfonia, that its artistic director Michael Waldron...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022

BASTON Flemish and French Chansons

As composer of a dozen motets, 30 French songs and seven Flemish songs, mostly printed in Antwerp or Leuven from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2022

BANKS Vocal and Chamber Music

The Australian Don Banks, who died prematurely at the age of 56, was a significant figure in the musical life...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

Tournament for Twenty Fingers

Despite its catchy title, this is not, I’m afraid, a recording that is going to set the world on fire....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022

Mariam Batsashvili: Romantic Piano Masters

Although this is essentially a Liszt album – no surprise, as Batsashvili was the first female winner of the International...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2022

Sean Shibe: Lost & Found

The first thing that comes to mind when seeing the cover of protean guitarist Sean Shibe’s latest release is Watteau’s...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2022

Evocations - Contemporary Organ Music (Christian von Blohn)

Don’t be put off by this album’s subtitle, ‘Contemporary Organ Music’. Although there are some ‘tough’ patches, these five pieces...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2022

Gustav Leonhardt: Elizabethan Organ Music

Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) had a long and extraordinarily productive career, and his discography includes not just the legendary harpsichord recordings...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2022

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