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THWAITES From Five Continents - Choral music and songs

If the name Penelope Thwaites is familiar it’s probably as a pianist. Australian-born, London-based Thwaites has recorded extensively and is...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY All-Night Vigil (Kjava)

Tchaikovsky’s settings for the Orthodox Vigil service (which comprises Vespers followed by Matins and the First Hour in the Byzantine...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2020

SCHUBERT Songs 'Where only stars can hear us' (Karim Sulayman)

Here from Avie comes another Lieder disc, following up on Kyle Stegall and Eric Zivian’s Schumann recital (10/19), where the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020

PARRY Songs of Farewell (Westminster Abbey Choir)

The four composers were all born within the two decades from 1848 and, to varying degrees, had an eye and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020

LAMBERT; WALTON Façades

Walton’s association with the Sitwells, who took the young composer under their familial wings in the 1920s after he left...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2020

KREEK The Suspended Harp of Babel

Whenever I have heard Vox Clamantis in concert it has been an amazing experience. Their clarity, their precision, their sheer...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2020

JOMMELLI Missa pro Defunctis. Libera me. Miserere

The Requiem in E flat by Niccolò Jommelli (1714-74) became to the late 18th century what Mozart’s was to the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020

HOLST The Cloud Messenger

Why, if you’re not the composer, would you arrange a large-scale score for much smaller forces? If it’s a question...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

HANDEL Messiah ... Refreshed!

The title ‘Messiah … Refreshed!’ is hype – this purposefully old-fashioned large-scale performance presents the version for modern symphony orchestra...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020

ELGAR Sea Pictures. The Music Makers (Petrenko)

I was much taken with Kathryn Rudge’s contribution to Barry Wordsworth’s BBC CO anthology of orchestral songs by Elgar (Somm,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2020

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