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Sasha Cooke: How do I find you

While many musicians experienced meltdown during lockdown (for understandable reasons, of course), others found creative and artistic freedom in the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022

The Queen's Six: From Windsor With Love

It’s like the teacher’s pet bursting out in a hail of expletives, or a Hollywood good girl gone suddenly bad:...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2022

Joyce DiDonato: Eden

We begin high up in the atmosphere with a chord that shimmers into being like the opening of Ralph Vaughan...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

STRAUSS 'Zueignung' (Sarah Wegener)

Though Sarah Wegener has an extensive discography, the majority of her recordings are ensemble efforts with concert works ranging from...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2022

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Benjamin Appl)

For the first release of his new relationship with Alpha, baritone Benjamin Appl dives deep into the wintry heart of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2022

PERGOLESI Stabat mater HAYDN Symphony No 49

A surprise awaits those expecting the voices of soprano Jodie Devos and mezzo Adèle Charvet to intertwine in the anguished...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

HANDEL Apollo e Dafne. Armida abbandonata

Francesco Corti uses orchestral pieces to creatively flesh out a programme presenting a pair of Handel’s best-known cantate con stromenti....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022

DOVE; MARTIN; WEIR Choral Works

Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 1 (Christoph Prégardien)

Following its Schubert intégrale, Naxos is now launching a complete Brahms song edition, masterminded and annotated by Ulrich Eisenlohr. The...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022

JS BACH St John Passion (Gardiner)

After 22 years, Deutsche Grammophon returns to one of its most prodigious prodigal sons from the label’s pre-millennial era. As...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2022

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