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The Contrast: English Poetry in Song

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

TOMKINS O Give Thanks Unto the Lord: Choral Works

Along with Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons (and, later, Purcell), Thomas Tomkins was a member of the Chapel Royal – the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Barenboim)

Music for the Faust drama? Goethe always proposed Mozart, albeit posthumously, but Schumann – despite nerves about composing music for...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2020

PARRY Judith (Vann)

Hands up: how many of us have laughed at Ernest Newman’s quip about Parry ‘sickening for another oratorio’ without ever...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020

MATHIAS Choral Music

Even in more reflective vein, as with the gently swaying Ave verum corpus completed shortly before his death in 1992,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020

JANČEVSKIS Aeternum and other choral works

Jēkabs Jančevskis (b1992) personifies the next generation of Latvian choral composers after Ēriks Ešenvalds, his teacher. On the evidence of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020

FAURÉ 'Fauré et ses poètes'

The French baritone Marc Mauillon progresses from one musical time warp to another here. He is a distinctive presence in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

EŠENVALDS There will come soft rains

The Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (b1977) is noted for the wide range of his compositions, which span opera (The Immured...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2020

Clairières: Songs By Lili and Nadia Boulanger

Nicholas Phan recently opened a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital with a Nadia Boulanger-authored song I never knew existed, ‘Soir...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

BLACKFORD Pietà (Amy Dickson)

The Stabat mater – Mary’s grief upon seeing her son crucified on the Cross – has received more than its...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020

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