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Crazy Girl Crazy

One of music’s great risk-takers, Barbara Hannigan goes out on a limb with ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, her debut album as...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson

Stephen Wilkinson, who turned 98 this spring, is probably best known as the conductor who led the BBC Northern Singers from 1954...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

SVIRIDOV Russia Adrift

Sviridov’s Russia Adrift (also translated as Russia Cast Adrift – the Russian is Otchalivshaya Rus’; either will work) is becoming something of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2017

RISTORI Cantatas for Soprano

Giovanni Alberto Ristori (c1692-1753) came to prominence composing operas, such as a setting of Orlando furioso (1713) produced in Venice...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2017

PURCELL Royal Welcome Songs for King James II

From the choral anthems of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, the role of music...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017

Dear Evan Hansen

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will, of course, forever be best known as the composers of La La Land and in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2017

MONTEVERDI Vespers (Dunedin Consort)

Anyone expecting a John Butt Monteverdi Vespers to be in the liturgical reconstruction mould of Andrew Parrott (or indeed Butt’s own...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi. Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine

It’s becoming clear that Ludovic Morlot likes to do things his own way. His recent disc of Ives’s New England...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017

G BUSH; HOROVITZ Songs

That Geoffrey Bush (1920‑98) possessed a very real gift for word-setting is evident throughout this most welcome selection of his songs,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

DOWLAND Seven Tears BENJAMIN Upon Silence

French viol consort Sit Fast (named after a piece by Christopher Tye) have shown a liking for cycles in their two recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

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