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Songs From Our Ancestors

Since it opened in January 2014, the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse has hosted almost as much music as theatre, establishing...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016

The Old Colony Collection

Founded in 1815, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Chorus is the oldest still-extant performing arts organisation in America. For their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016

Chanson perpétuelle

There’s been a surge of interest in French chamber songs of late, and Katherine Broderick’s new Champs Hill recital shares...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

Aksel!

A successful boy treble is every record label’s nightmare. No sooner does your artist reach his peak than he is...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Discoveries. Purer than Pearl

Discoveries don’t come much more rewarding than Vaughan Williams’s Three Nocturnes. Dating from 1908 (the year of his tutelage with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

TALLIS Spem in alium

With Spem in alium (or, in its English guise, Sing and glorify), The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their Tallis explorations in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016

PÄRT Da pacem Domine. The Deer's Cry

The arrival of a new disc by the Latvian Radio Choir is always guaranteed to quicken the reviewer’s pulse. They...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2016

LEO Sacred Works

If &cetera is not a name that rings a bell, it’s because this is a relatively new period ensemble, founded...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2016

JOSQUIN Missa di dadi. Missa Une mousse de Biscaye

One of the sad things about Josquin research is that works are judged spurious – or even just possibly spurious...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2016

FURRER Works for Choir and Ensemble

Ambitious ensemble works such as Nuun and operas including Fama, Begehren and Westenbuch (recorded on Kairos, along with as much...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2016

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