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BIZET Djamileh. Vasco de Gama. Cantates. Musique chorale

Issued ahead of the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death in June, this remarkable Bru Zane set traces his compositional development...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

ANTHEIL Venus in Africa

Here’s a rarity: the first and (as far as I can ascertain) only recording of Venus in Africa, an opera...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025

Wisdom & Strength: Contemporary Sacred Choral Music

This album belongs to that interesting genus of recordings in which liturgy and sacred music are brought together to recreate...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2025

‘Terra Mater’

I love a good concept album and this one is simultaneously thoughtful, fun and prescient. Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman (Greta...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2025

My Heart’s in the Highlands

Here’s something different: an imaginative programme celebrating God’s own country in its own words and music. And the whole project...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2025

'Masabane'

It’s her party and she’ll sing what she wants to. And have a ball doing so. In her first solo...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025

Sonya Yoncheva: George

Sonya Yoncheva’s new album, her first for Naïve, examines the life and world of George Sand through the work of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

Fatma Said: Lieder

Fatma Said might look out alone from the cover of her new album, ‘Lieder’, but as a quick look through...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2025

In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol 3

The third and final volume of ‘In Chains of Gold’ is devoted to Tomkins and his obscurer contemporaries. As in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025

Angel of Peace

At the heart of this album – designed to accompany The Sixteen’s 2025 Choral Pilgrimage – sits music by Arvo...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025

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