Rodney Milnes compares available recordings of Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. David Fallows reviews new releases of medieval and Renaissance choral music, including 15th-century French and Italian courtly love songs, choral music by Robert Fayrfax, Victoria's Officium Defunctorum of 1605, and Paul McCreesh's reconstruction of the 1608 festival at San Rocco, Venice, with music by Giovanni Gabrieli. Revised repeat from yesterday 9.00am