Neal Davies reviews
Vaughan Williams: Job; Songs of Travel
Halle Orchestra/Mark Elder, et al (Halle)
Haydn: Il ritorno di Tobia
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Mauro Peter (tenor), et al; Salzburg Bach Choir/Ivor Bolton (Sony Classical)
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Lucy Crowe, Allan Clayton, Benjamin Hulett, Jeremy Budd, Neal Davies; Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn (Chaconne)
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.
Sullivan: The Light of the World
Natalya Romaniw, Eleanor Dennis, Kitty Whately, Robert Murray, Ben McAteer, Neal Davies; Kinder Children’s Choir; BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews (Dutton)
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.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki)
Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki, et al (BIS)