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James Gilchrist: Solitude

By sheer coincidence, ‘Solitude’ appears to be tailor-made for mid-2020, though this new disc of music by Purcell, Schubert, Dove...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2020

In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Anthem Vol 2

The name of this album may be familiar. Used by the Dunedin Consort for their release in 2003 with Delphian,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2020

The Hermes Experiment: Here We Are

Rather like the underground laboratory wherein the eponymous scientific experiment took place, The Hermes Experiment’s calm exterior often hides a...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

The Call of Rome (The Sixteen)

The draw of Italy for mid-16th-century northern European composers – oltremontani; ‘those from the other side of the alps’ –...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2020

VIVALDI Motets. Stabat Mater (Oberti)

Vivaldi’s motet Clarae stellae, scintillate (1715) was composed for Geltruda della Violetta (1684-1752), a talented musician in the coro of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2020

SMYTH The Prison

The Prison (1929-30) was Ethel Smyth’s last major work, an hour-long oratorio-style work described by its composer as a symphony,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

RICHTER Voices

Troubled times often prompt creative responses that bring out the human qualities lying within us – tolerance, compassion, dignity and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

POTT At First Light

Every now and then you hear a new work and feel that excitement, the knowledge that here is a piece...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater CALDARA Maddalena Ai Piedi di Cristo (Naessens)

After the dazzling assurance of Les Talens Lyriques’ recent recording under Christophe Rousset (with the tautly blended pair of Sandrine...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2020

PENDERECKI St Luke Passion (Nagano)

The voices of the Warsaw Boys’ Choir and the Kraków Philharmonic Choir draw the listener immediately into this recording of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2020

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