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WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson)

Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook has attracted many great pairings of singers in the past. This new recording, however, makes a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2022

SENFL Motets and Songs

I’ve long admired the Regensburg-based ensemble Singer Pur for their egoless music-making. Recent highlights are two sets (also on this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi (Timothy Fallon)

With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2022

Stranger: Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly (Nicolas Phan)

In a BBC Radio 3 podcast first aired in 2016, composer Nico Muhly stated that one of the things that...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2022

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

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