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SENFL Motets and Songs

I’ve long admired the Regensburg-based ensemble Singer Pur for their egoless music-making. Recent highlights are two sets (also on this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi (Timothy Fallon)

With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2022

Stranger: Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly (Nicolas Phan)

In a BBC Radio 3 podcast first aired in 2016, composer Nico Muhly stated that one of the things that...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2022

HANDEL Chandos Anthems

Over a dinner last month, I was discussing with a friend what the French mean by inégal. ‘It’s not a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

HAHN; SAINT-SAËNS 'À la lumière'

This often fascinating album finds Christophe Grapperon and Accentus surveying choral music by Saint-Saëns and Hahn, much of it a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

BERKELEY; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; WARLOCK 'Colourise'

It was in early 2020, while hunting for repertoire for the London Choral Sinfonia, that its artistic director Michael Waldron...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022

BASTON Flemish and French Chansons

As composer of a dozen motets, 30 French songs and seven Flemish songs, mostly printed in Antwerp or Leuven from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2022

BANKS Vocal and Chamber Music

The Australian Don Banks, who died prematurely at the age of 56, was a significant figure in the musical life...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

Tournament for Twenty Fingers

Despite its catchy title, this is not, I’m afraid, a recording that is going to set the world on fire....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022

Mariam Batsashvili: Romantic Piano Masters

Although this is essentially a Liszt album – no surprise, as Batsashvili was the first female winner of the International...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2022

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