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Robyn Allegra Parton: Burnished Gold

It is refreshing to encounter a singer – Robyn Allegra Parton – whose gifts of curation are it would seem...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

R STRAUSS Lieder (Thomas Laske)

The name of the German baritone Thomas Laske is new to me, as indeed is that of his superb partner...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2023

SELLE Johannes Passion (Adamske) ROLLE Lukas-Passion (Willens)

These two Lutheran Passions from opposite ends of the Baroque spectrum show how approaches to setting the gospel accounts of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

SAARIAHO Reconnaissance: Choral Music

The death of Kaija Saariaho, so soon after the first London performances of her opera Innocence and the BBC/Barbican ‘Total...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023

PALESTRINA Masses Vol 9 (Christophers)

This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us expected. Poor...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2023

MORALES Missa Mille regretz. Missa Desilde al cavallero

This is the Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis, founded in 2011, as opposed to the older ensembles of the same name...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

MACMILLAN; TAVENER; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Choral works (O’Donnell)

James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Orchestral Songs (Haselböck)

Liszt’s output exists in a state of flux, since many of his works (especially his songs) appear in multiple versions....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2023

LEIGHTON Every Living Creature

This welcome new selection of Kenneth Leighton’s unaccompanied choral music brings a clutch of premiere recordings, none more valuable than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023

HAYDN Stabat Mater (1803 version. Jacobs)

Haydn was justifiably proud of his 1767 Stabat mater. Within 15 years it was being performed far and wide, and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

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