Katherine Watson reviews

Boismortier: Les voyages de l'Amour
Katherine Watson, et al; Purcell Choir; Orfeo Orchestra/György Vashegyi (Glossa)

Lully - Armide 1778
Various; Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet (Alpha Classics)

Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Rolando Villazón et al; dir. Mariame Clément (Paris, 2017) Erato (DVD)
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JS Bach: Soprano Katherine Watson sings in two Mass in B minor sets
Hyperion added a ‘Bach in B minor’ to its catalogue as recently as 2014, and now here comes another – like Arcangelo’s, recorded after the experience of performing the work in concert. There the similarities end. Jonathan Cohen mustered a choir of 20.

L’Opéra des Opéras
Katherine Watson, Karine Deshayes, Reinoud van Mechelen; Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet (Alpha Classics)

Choir of Trinity College and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment perform JS Bach: Mass in B minor
Hyperion added a ‘Bach in B minor’ to its catalogue as recently as 2014, and now here comes another – like Arcangelo’s, recorded after the experience of performing the work in concert. There the similarities end. Jonathan Cohen mustered a choir of 20.

L'Opera du Roi soleil
Katherine Watson (soprano); Les Ambassadeurs/Alexis Kossenko (Aparté)

Gervais: Hypermnestre
Purcell Choir; Orfeo Orchestra/Gyorgy Vashegyi, et al (Glossa)