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Set upon the Rood

Leaving other Oxbridge choirs to squabble over Tallis and Byrd, under director Geoffrey Webber the Choir of Gonville & Caius...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017

Occhi Turchini: Songs from Calabria

Franco Pavan’s recent forays into the exciting world of folk/early music with Laboratorio ’600 are stylish and exciting. His combination...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2016

Many Are The Wonders

This is ORA’s third release in less than 18 months – a breathless pace that conductor-founder Suzi Digby plans to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017

Like as the Hart

A collection of settings of Psalm 42 in various translations curated by Catherine Alette Clover, author of New College-themed novel...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017

Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital - in memoriam Maria Callas

Gundula Janowitz officially retired from the stage in 1990 and, according to most accounts, gave occasional recitals until around the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017

Kurt Weill Songs

How do you sing Kurt Weill? There is, I suspect, ultimately no one answer. As Dagmar Pecková points out in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Scott of the Antarctic

Vaughan Williams must have been gratified by the positive reaction to his score for Scott of the Antarctic. The film...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2017

SZYMANOWSKI Songs

This programme presents songs by Szymanowski covering the half-decade between 1900 and 1905. They are youthful works, then, which point...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017

SVIRIDOV Russia Cast Adrift

This recording presents an orchestration of Sviridov’s song-cycle on verses by Yesenin, Russia Cast Adrift (which Hvorostovsky has already recorded...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2017

STRAUSS Through Life and Love

In a note in the booklet to her debut album, Louise Alder talks about her ‘personal passionate love affair’ with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017

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