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A New Spirit

The 23-strong Caritas Chamber Choir was founded in 2011 and is based in East Kent. The choir’s seventh CD release...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025

Les musiques de Molière

William Christie explores the essential function that music had in Molière’s comedies, although this is not exactly a ‘new’ album...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025

A Monk's Life

This is a superb programme mining a rich vein of post-Reformation music from German-speaking countries, all sung with the characteristic...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025

Lucrezia: Portraits of a Woman

These four gripping Baroque cantatas depict the anguish, fury and suicide of Lucrezia after her rape by Sextus Tarquinius (son...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025

Illuminate

It’s tough luck on this new performance of Britten’s masterwork that it came my way so soon after I’d revisited...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2025

The Huehuetenango Songbook: Music from 16th-Century Guatemala

From the rich store of Renaissance music preserved in the Guatemalan town of San Miguel Acatán, tenor Jonatan Alvarado and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2025

Nicolò Balducci: Confidenze - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

So far young male soprano Nicolò Balducci has stuck to safe territory for his solo albums: music written for castratos....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2025

TŮMA Vesperae

Roman Valék and the musicians of Czech Ensemble Baroque continue to prove themselves staunch advocates for the music of František...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2025

TELEMANN Ino: Opera Arias for Soprano (Amanda Forsythe)

Telemann’s Ino (c1765), composed in his 80s, is a setting of Karl Wilhelm Ramler’s poem based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Ino’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025

SCHUBERT Lieder (Philippe Jaroussky)

Following a 2020 Wigmore Hall recital devoted to Schubert and rapturous response to his Schubert song videos uploaded to social...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2025

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