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DAVIS X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

This is the second recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The first appeared in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023

CHERUBINI Les Abencérages (Vashegyi)

Who, or what, are Les Abencérages, you might well ask. There’s a clue in the subtitle, which is ‘The Standard...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Vespro di Natale: Christmas Vespers

It is not a new idea to build a Monteverdi Vespers (Venetian) that is not the Monteverdi Vespers (Mantuan), but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023

Tudor Music Afterlives

This intriguing recital brings us music from a period that is very well documented on record but much of what...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2023

Music For Lady Louise

‘Pray, good people, be civil, I am the Protestant whore’: so said Nell Gwyn, displaying the wit for which she...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Ruby Hughes: Echo

This meticulously curated programme from Ruby Hughes could be called ‘The Quiet Album’. It intersperses Bach sarabandes for solo keyboard...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems

Here’s yet another fresh slant on the glorious Five Mystical Songs to mark Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, this time with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023

MUHLY The Street

Having provided the acoustic space for Parker Ramsay’s impressive debut album – the Goldberg Variations in his own arrangement for...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023

MACHAUT Remede de Fortune

Several difficulties arise in recording Machaut’s Remede de Fortune. The first is that it is basically a narrative, over 4000...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2023

BERLIOZ Les Nuits d'été. Harold en Italie

Hector Berlioz’s six songs (1840-41) setting the poetry of his friend Théophile Gautier were published together merely for the sake...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2023

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