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The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy

Though Thomas Hardy is best known as the author of well-known (and for the most part) fatalist novels, he aspired...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2024

Magnificat 4

This final album of Andrew Nethsingha’s acclaimed ‘Magnificat’ series features recordings made during 2022. It also marks the close of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024

Im wachen Traume

At the risk of sounding like a damaged sound file (as opposed to a broken record): did anybody listen to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024

Hymns from Merton

As fewer young people are exposed to the treasures of Anglican hymnody and a number of misguided senior clergy seem...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024

Harmonies of Devotion

This Venetian Baroque programme is a departure for Contrapunctus – discographically at least. It views the Italian Baroque through the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024

The Leuven Chansonnier Vol.3 & 4: Le Cueur vous demeure

It is common knowledge that the Sollazzo Ensemble that was awarded the contract for recording the entire Leuven Chansonnier on...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2024

Au douz tens nouvel: Chansons de trouveres

The start of this recital promises something bracingly ahistorical: the aeolian wind and unpitched instrumental sounds might have come straight...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024

VIADANA Sacri concentus

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s groundbreaking Cento Concerti ecclesiastici (Venice, 1602) was the first publication of sacred music to include mandatory...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2024

CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works

Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024

M BERKELEY Collaborations

Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley (76 years...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

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