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MESSAGER Fortunio (Langrée)

André Messager’s a bit of a rarity in the opera house these days. The work you’re most likely to encounter...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020

HAHN L’île du rêve (Niquet)

Hahn’s ‘Polynesian idyll’ was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in a double bill with Delibes’s Le roi l’a dit in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020

ENNA Klepoatra (Gustafsson)

August Enna (1859-1939) was raised on a Danish island by a shoemaker, a striking parallel with Hans Christian Andersen were...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2020

BOISMORTIER Les Voyages de l'Amour (Vashegyi)

Sometimes dubbed ‘the French Telemann’, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was both admired and mocked for what a contemporary versifier ambiguously...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020

Sacred Treasures of Christmas; Sacred Treasures of Spain

Between them, England’s cathedral choirs and Oxbridge choral foundations have an effective monopoly on polyphony with trebles on the top...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020

Fatma Said: El Nour

‘Wit, spice and plenty of polish’ was Neil Fisher’s five-star assessment (The Times) of Fatma Said’s 2018 Wigmore Hall recital....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020

Heaven Full of Stars (Vasari Singers)

Over 40 years the Vasari Singers and founder-conductor Jeremy Backhouse have built up an impressive reputation and catalogue, with recordings...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020

Christmas in Puebla

‘Christmas in Puebla’ is to your traditional festive classical album as a spicy, aromatic glass of mulled wine is to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020

A Ceremony of Carols (Owen Rees)

Companion pieces are everything. How you frame a work can change how we hear it and how we listen –...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs, Vol 1

Albion Records has assembled a distinguished line-up for this first of four volumes devoted to Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020

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