CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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An octet of majestic voices that bring solace and contentment
VOCES8
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
VOCES8
Infinity
(Decca)
THE demand for spiritual music and rise in healing composition has heightened over the past 18 months.
One of the finest vocal ensembles in Britain leading trends is VOCES8.
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