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HANDEL Saul (Moulds)

With its unflinching portrayal of the Israelite king’s descent into madness and terrible final lucidity, Saul is arguably both the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2022

GIORDANO Siberia (Noseda)

Siberia was Giordano’s favourite of his own operas. First performed in 1903, it reflects the growing fin de siècle fascination...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2022

DURÓN Coronis (Dumestre)

If you fancy something off the operatic beaten track, take a wander back into the Spanish Golden Age. Coronis is...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2022

Stella: Renaissance Gems and Their Reflections, Vol 3

After volumes focusing on Byrd and Tallis (3/16, 9/17), ORA and their music director Suzi Digby go international for the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2022

O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths

Etymologists trace a late fourth-century transition from Jerusalem as the ‘city of peace’ to the ‘vision of peace’ (the term...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2022

Mirabilia Musica: Echoes From Late Medieval Cracow

While Ukraine suffers from an unspeakably murderous invasion, it is good to remember that neighbouring Poland has a fairly rich...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2022

The Covid-19 Sessions

Looking back in years to come, historians will find a musical time-capsule in the releases of the current period: recordings...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2022

WILBY An English Passion According to Saint Matthew

This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2022

SCHÜTZ Historia Nativitatis. David et Salomon

Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris apply their communicative extroversion to Schütz’s settings of texts from the Psalms of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2022

RACHMANINOV Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Excerpts. Putniņš)

While Rachmaninov’s setting of the (Eucharistic) Liturgy is not as well known as his Vigil (the so-called Vespers) – with...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022

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