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Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger and VOCES8

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Reviewed at Milton Abbey, Blandford Forum on 3 August 2018
Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
Biber, Passacaglia in G minor for solo violin
Works by Matteis
Bach, Partita in A minor for flute, BWV1013 (arr. violin)
Gabrielli, Angelus Domine descendit
Praetorius, Angelus ad Pastores Ait
Rachmaninov, Vespers (Bogoroditsye Dyevo), Op.37: Ave Maria
Mendelssohn, Elijah, Op.70: Denn er hat seinen Englein befohlen
MacMillan, Domine non secundum peccata nostra
Dove, The Three Kings
Park, Antiphon for the Angels
Schubert, Ave Maria (originally Ellens Gesang III), D.839
Voces8
Rachel Podger, Violin
Stunning Winter Tales from Voces8 at Wigmore Hall
*****
Joy, sadness and excitement in Bach's Mass in B minor
****1
Energy and virtuosity from VOCES8 in an impressive Proms debut
****1
Light shining through tears: VOCES8 at Milton Abbey
****1
An inventive Dido and Aeneas in Utrecht
****1
Edle Dissonanzen im Advent: VOCES8 beim Chor-Festival Live from London
****1
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