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Sandrine Piau: Chimère

As Sandrine Piau explains in a brief booklet note, this album completes a leisurely triptych that started with ‘Evocation’ a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018

Cantata: yet can I hear... (Bejun Mehta)

The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has one of the best voices in the business. Full, free and with real power...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018

SVIRIDOV Canticles and Prayers. The Red Easter

This is a beautiful selection of Sviridov’s choral music. There is a subtlety to phrasing of the Latvian Radio Choir’s...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018

STRAUSS Lieder (Maria Bengtsson)

Maria Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018

SCHUBERT Songs Vol 4 (Bostridge)

Six months after I reviewed the third volume of Ian Bostridge’s live Schubert series from the Wigmore Hall (12/17), here’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018

SCARLATTI Responsories for Holy Week: Holy Saturday

It is not certain that all the music on this disc is by Scarlatti; the manuscript that contains the nine...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2018

RACHMANINOV All-night Vigil (Bielecka)

The Rachmaninov Vigil has become one of those works, rather like Mozart’s Requiem, of which one can never have too...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018

PURCELL Welcome Songs for King Charles II

The Sixteen cleverly mix up secular, political and sacred pieces revolving around flattering court odes that welcomed the king and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018

MUNDY Sacred Choral Music

Recordings entirely devoted to William Mundy don’t abound; the most recent seems to be The Sixteen’s almost 20 years ago...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

Monteverdi in San Marco

Monteverdi’s Venetian church music – whether written for St Mark’s or elsewhere in the city – is preserved selectively in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018

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