Recording Review
Gramophone Critics’ Choice 2024
GramophonePuts The Hours
Sols; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Erato
Kevin Puts’s The Hours doesn’t demand to be seen and studied. It just needs to be heard. Three plot lines revolve around the novel Mrs Dalloway, all flowing with emotionally intuitive music full of hovering, unseen choral voices. Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and Kelli O’Hara inhabit separate plots but unite in a glorious trio. David Patrick Stearns