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POULENC Stabat Mater (Romano)

Founded in 2005, Mathieu Romano’s 17-strong Ensemble Aedes are vocal shapeshifters, slipping seamlessly from opera chorus to chamber choir. French...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024

PEPUSCH Chandos Anthems

Handel was not the only musical visitor at Cannons, the country estate of James Brydges (the Earl of Carnarvon, later...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024

MOZART 'Exsultate, Jubilate!'

‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

HANDEL Un'alma Innamorata (Francesca Aspromonte)

Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024

GILLES Messe des morts

Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024

DELIUS Mass of Life (Elder)

Preceded by a pair of highly acclaimed concert performances in Bergen’s Grieg Hall, Mark Elder’s new traversal of Delius’s A...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024

BRITTEN Te Deum. A Ceremony of Carols. A Hymn to St Cecilia

Devised during Britten’s perilous ocean voyage back to the UK from North America in 1942, A Ceremony of Carols comprises...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024

BARTÓK Cantata Profana & Transylvanian Dances KODÁLY Te Deum & Psalmus Hungaricus

Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus (1923) and Bartók’s Cantata profana (1930) have appeared together on disc twice before, I believe – by...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

JS BACH Geistliche Lieder (Klaus Mertens)

This sympathetic collection brings together songs with devotional texts, some of which derive from Bach with certainty (included in the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024

Forget This Night

The centrepiece here is Lili Boulanger’s emotionally turbulent 13-song cycle Clairières dans le ciel (‘Clearings in the sky’, 1914) on...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

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