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Palimpsest

It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

Brindley Sherratt: Fear No More

As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024

Ruby Hughes: End of my Days

Soprano Ruby Hughes’s previous album, ‘Echo’ (1/23), focused mainly on Baroque and contemporary repertoire, with occasional nods towards folk music....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

TIPPETT A Child of Our Time (Davis)

This is the first new recording of Tippett’s wartime masterpiece since Colin Davis’s LSO Live version of 2007 and it...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024

Schumann in English Vol 1

Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024

PORPORA Music for the Venetian Ospedaletto

Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024

MOZART; STRAUSS Lieder (Sabine Devieilhe)

Lieder recitals such as this are a reminder of what’s often missing in others: hallmarks include clean vocalism, unaffected treatment...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2024

Gershwin Rhapsody

Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2024

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius (McCreesh)

A culmination of his choral essays in symphony (The Black Knight), oratorio (The Light of Life) and dramatic cantata (King...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2024

BRUMEL Earthquake Mass (Schmelzer)

By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024

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