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KARLSONS Oremus: Sacred Choral Works

Juris Karlsons is one of Latvia’s most distinguished composers, with an extensive output and having occupied some of the highest...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2020

HELLINCK Missa Surrexit pastor bonus LUPI motets

Forget the glamour of Hollywood’s Rat Pack, the 16th century had a Wolf Pack of musicians whose names derive from...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020

HARVEY Evensong

Richard Harvey’s album ‘Kyrie’ (2017) saw the film composer rework and rearrange several themes and cues into a choral context....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020

Kate Lindsey: Arianna

Kate Lindsey’s second solo album, like her first (9/17), takes her away from the classic lyric repertoire with which she...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2020

EÖTVÖS Halleluja - oratorium balbulum; Alle vittime senza nome

Peter Eötvös’s Halleluja (2015) is styled ‘oratorium balbulum’ – a stammering oratorio – and subtitled ‘Four Fragments’. The latter does...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

BERLIOZ Messe solennelle (Niquet)

It’s nearly 30 years now since John Warrack, in these pages, hailed the sudden rediscovery of a copy of this...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020

Ruby Hughes: Clytemnestra

The ghost of Richard Strauss’s Klytemnestra in Elektra hovers over the final work on the soprano Ruby Hughes’s new BIS...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2020

Magnificat: Christmas in Leipzig

On their much-anticipated debut recording, Solomon’s Knot offer, in chronological order, works from three successive Thomaskantors: Johann Schelle (1648-1701), Johann...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2020

Alexandre Tharaud: Versailles

Alexandre Tharaud loves a themed disc and ‘Versailles’ is a typically personal exploration of the glories of the French Baroque...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2020

The Art of Variation (Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi)

Here is a programme that would rarely (never?) be presented in the concert hall, one specifically tailored to the medium...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

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