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In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile

Exile, for Edward Said, was not only banishment but a crucial separation from cultural identity; a sense of not feeling...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2019

The Ear of Theodoor van Loon

This is one of those recitals of out-of-the-way repertory in which Paul Van Nevel specialises, intended to accompany the paintings...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019

Andrew Watts: A Countertenor Songbook

The countertenor voice is often admired for its purity of tone and clarity of projection, but one shouldn’t disregard its...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Earth & Sky – Choral Premieres

Albion Records serves up another treat for all Vaughan Williams fans: over an hour’s worth of choral fare encompassing an...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

SELICKIS Paradisus Vocis

The music of Andrejs Selickis, a Latvian composer born in 1960, is something of a cultural crossroads. On beginning to...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

A SCARLATTI Cantate da camera

Alessandro Scarlatti composed over 700 chamber cantatas, so we can’t be surprised if a new disc serves up what appear...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2019

RIHM Requiem-Strophen (Jansons)

More than any other comparable text, that for the Missa pro defunctis has assumed an existence outside of any strictly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019

PARRY Twelve Sets of English Lyrics, Vol 3

Gems abound on this third and final volume in what has been a most enterprising survey, and I’m happy to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

MOZART Mass in C minor (ed Clemens Kemme)

Both of the large-scale sacred works of Mozart’s Vienna decade remained unfinished. The reason for the Requiem’s fragmentary state is...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Minton, Kollo)

When Alan Blyth surveyed the extant recordings of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in these pages a couple of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019

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