Nicky Spence reviews
Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 2
Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone), Thomas Gould (violin), William Vann (piano) (Albion)
Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 1
Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), et al (Albion)
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Sarah Tynan, Madeleine Shaw, Leah-Marian Jones, Samuel Youn, Iain Paterson, Susan Bickley et al; Hallé/Mark Elder (Hallé)
Magic Lantern Tales: Songs by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Edward Nieland, Sophie Daneman, Natlie Raybould, Verity Wingate et al (Champs Hill Records)
Handel’s Brockes-Passion in a performance to remember
‘Egarr recognises Handel’s often vivid responses to Brockes’s graphic text and draws from them deeply-felt, contrasting emotions’