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James Newby: Fallen to Dust

The baritone James Newby’s debut album ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ (1/21) announced the singer as a vividly sympathetic balladeer....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2023

State Choir Latvija: Credo

How the choral music of Richard Strauss, lifelong atheist, has ended up on an album called ‘Credo’, only Hyperion can...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2023

SCHUMANN Missa Sacra (Putniņš)

Schumann’s sacred music remains the least-explored facet of his output – less appreciated even than his forays into opera and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Samuel Hasselhorn)

In a class by itself? That well-worn cliché kept surfacing during multiple listenings to this new recording, which promises to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

SAWYERS Mayflower on the Sea of Time

Oratorios are often on biblical or spiritual subjects, but Philip Sawyers’s Mayflower on the Sea of Time (2017 18) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

MEHLDAU The Folly of Desire

A musical commentary on desire? How can that work? The most famous piece in that territory – Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

LUZZASCHI Il concerto segreto

Luzzaschi’s Madrigali, printed in 1601, supposedly contains the music that the ‘three ladies’ of Ferrara sang privately for Duke Alfonso...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2023

LARCHER The Living Mountain

Thomas Larcher’s The Living Mountain is a realist, handheld-camera response to the Hollywood glitz of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. The soprano...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023

A HUGHES Dewi Sant

It is now 33 years since Arwel Hughes’s oratorio Dewi Sant (‘Saint David’) was issued on Chandos, with the BBC...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2023

HENZE Das Floss der Medusa (Meister)

‘The form is strong. The imagery is eloquent. This is a lyrical, impassioned, masterly and very powerful composition: a humanist...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023

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