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Gothic Voices: Echoes of an Old Hall

This remarkable album returns Gothic Voices fully to the form of their Christopher Page years. That is not intended as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2021

Brabant 1653

So what happened in Brabant in 1653 then? The pertinent answer here is that Carmelites seeking refuge after the banning...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2021

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin. Schwanengesang. Winterreise (Christoph Prégardien)

In the vast Schubert lieder discography, one looks to Fritz Wunderlich for mystique, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for authority and Ian Bostridge...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

RIHM; DE WERT In Umbra Mortis

Sacred music features prominently in Wolfgang Rihm’s massive output, though his outlook is hardly doctrinaire – whether in such imposing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2021

MONTEVERDI Lagrime d'Amante

It seems, at first, astonishing that this is La Compagnia del Madrigale’s first recording of Monteverdi madrigals. The award-winning Italian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2021

FAURÉ The Complete Songs, Vol 4

‘Gabriel Fauré, still relatively unfamiliar to the general public, deserves a glory similar to that enjoyed by the greatest French...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR 'Heart & Hereafter' Collected songs (Elizabeth Llewellyn)

Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn’s debut recital album consolidates the favourable impression she made on Martyn Brabbins’s superb Hyperion recordings of Vaughan...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2021

CHISHOLM Songs

Linguists, ethno-musicologists and anthropologists may well be automatically attracted to this Erik Chisholm album of Scottish song and verse, dating...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

Appena Chiudo Gli Occhi: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violin ( Giuseppina Bridelli)

The Sicilian Alessandro Scarlatti and the Venetian Antonio Caldara probably crossed paths several times in Rome, for example during Lent...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021

Sean Shibe: Camino

The album cover shows Sean Shibe shorn of his luxuriant locks; photos inside catch him in the act itself, wielding...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2021

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