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DEBUSSY Etudes (Steven Osborne)

I heard Steven Osborne performing Debussy’s Études live at a Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert last year, so my expectations for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2023

Unbounded: Music by American Women

Violinist Dawn Wohn paid tribute to nine female composers on her debut album, ‘Perspectives’, in 2019. This second is another...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2023

TOWER Concertos

Joan Tower is such a congenial, straightforward presence, one easily forgets that her complex compositional personality predates the full-fledged American...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023

DUSMAN Flashpoint

Composers draw inspiration from myriad sources in their efforts to create distinctive narratives. The eclectic works on this album of...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2023

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios (Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio)

This beautifully recorded new set of Beethoven’s piano trios with violinist Mark Kaplan, cellist Peter Stumpf and pianist Yael Weiss...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2023

Ekaterina Siurina: Where is my beloved?

Ekaterina Siurina first came to prominence more than two decades ago as a coloratura soprano, much admired for her Gilda,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2023

SMYTH Der Wald (Andrews)

Der Wald (‘The Wood’) was the second of Ethel Smyth’s six operas and the first of her four one-acters: only...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

SCHREKER Der Schatzgräber (Albrecht)

With over 350 performances across Europe in the first half of the 1920s, Der Schatzgräber (‘The Treasure Seeker’) was not...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023

MOZART Bastien et Bastienne PERGOLESI La servante maîtresse (Jarry)

‘The public came in their droves to hear such delectable songs … finally cement[ing] the era of great revolution in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2023

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Gonzalez Toro; Etienne)

The Homecoming of Ulysses, like its successor The Coronation of Poppaea, is a problem opera. It was first performed in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023

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