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Claire Booth, Ensemble 360: Pierrot Portraits

Many a major musical institution is largely ignoring the Schoenberg anniversary this year, so thank heavens for artists like Claire...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

#LetsBaRock

If anyone could make this project work, it’s Jakub Józef Orliński. Poland’s coolest classical star, a countertenor who sounds like...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024

Emily D’Angelo: Freezing

'Enargeia’, Emily D’Angelo’s impressive debut album (DG, 11/21), received the prize for Best Concept Album at the 2022 Gramophone Awards....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024

Angele Dei: New Latvian Choral Music

With six composers and the Latvian Radio Choir, Skani offers us a ‘time stamp’ of the state of new Latvian...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2024

Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas’s achievements as a composer have often fallen under the radar when measured against his many successes on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024

STRAUSS 'Tag und Nacht' (Kateřina Kněžíková)

Some three years after I gave a warm welcome to Kateřina Kněžíková‘s superb first solo album on Supraphon – a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

STANFORD Te Deum. Elegiac Ode

Completed in January 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and first given at the following year’s Leeds Festival, Stanford’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2024

Scaramella: Obrecht, Fitch, Brumel, Agricola

Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella has a bizarre history. We have only two of its original four voice-parts, known from an apparently...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

FUTRELL Stabat mater. Brittle Fluid. Vuggesang

Currently nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize (previous winners include Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you and Per...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024

CAMPRA Messe de Requiem

André Campra may be one of the key French opera composers between Lully and Rameau but I suspect at the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW2024

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