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SULLIVAN The Beauty Stone

It was a sad day for Sullivan when his ‘romantic musical drama’ The Beauty Stone ran for only 50 performances...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014

Marina Rebeka: Mozart Arias

'A Latvian soprano who has dazzled audiences in New York and Vienna with her impassioned performance of Donna Anna,’ proclaims...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014

EÖTVÖS Love and Other Demons

With his long experience as conductor and composer, Peter Eötvös will have been well aware of other operas centring on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014

La vallée des cloches

Bells and birds seem to be the subtext of Momo Kodama’s recital but her playing does not consistently ring out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

BACH Chorale Preludes ARMSTRONG Fantasy on B-A-C-H

Kit Armstrong opens his solo debut for Sony with a nearly-half-hour sequence of Bach chorale preludes. The pianist basically presents...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:

FINNISSY The History of Photography in Sound

Michael Finnissy completed The History of Photography in Sound, his thematically interlinked cycle of 11 solo piano pieces, with a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 8 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21

Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

Orient-Occident II

Jordi Savall’s explorations of non-Western repertoires continue with this luxuriously presented collaboration between the members of Hespèrion XXI and musicians...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014

Il cor tristo

This disc intersperses Renaissance madrigals by Bernardo Pisano and Jacques Arcadelt with the three sections of Roger Marsh’s Il cor...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014

MACMILLAN Alpha & Omega

It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014

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