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PURCELL Royal Welcome Songs for King James II

From the choral anthems of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, the role of music...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017

Dear Evan Hansen

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will, of course, forever be best known as the composers of La La Land and in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2017

MONTEVERDI Vespers (Dunedin Consort)

Anyone expecting a John Butt Monteverdi Vespers to be in the liturgical reconstruction mould of Andrew Parrott (or indeed Butt’s own...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi. Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine

It’s becoming clear that Ludovic Morlot likes to do things his own way. His recent disc of Ives’s New England...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017

G BUSH; HOROVITZ Songs

That Geoffrey Bush (1920‑98) possessed a very real gift for word-setting is evident throughout this most welcome selection of his songs,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

DOWLAND Seven Tears BENJAMIN Upon Silence

French viol consort Sit Fast (named after a piece by Christopher Tye) have shown a liking for cycles in their two recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

Entrez, le Diable!

It’s almost unfathomable that a cello could provoke a scandal, but this appears to have been in the case in the 1730s...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017

Alma española

Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin illuminate Spanish art songs in orbit around Lorca and Falla by mixing popular favourites and surprising discoveries...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017

Dark Queen Mantra

As Pwyll ap Siôn noted in his 80th-birthday feature on the composer (A/15), there is more to Terry Riley than...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017

LAITMAN The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter has inspired several operas, including rarely performed versions with music by Walter Damrosch, Fredric Kroll...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017

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