Mary Bevan 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)
After Silence
VOCES8/Barnaby Smith, et al (VOCES8 Records)
James MacMillan: The Sun Danced; Symphony No. 5
The Sixteen; Genesis Sixteen; Britten Sinfonia/Harry Christophers, et al (CORO)
The Divine Muse
Mary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) (Signum Classics)
Handel: Samson
Dunedin Consort/John Butt, et al (Linn)
The best recording of Handel’s Samson yet
‘John Butt’s deep grasp of Handel’s rhetoric and of large scale structure turns the work’s patchwork quality into a virtue’
Bringing Handel’s sopranos to life
‘Crowe and Bevan recreate two prime donne through their own blazing talents’
Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony