Search the Reviews Database

BOITO Nerone (Kaftan)

The gestation period for Boito’s Nerone must be one of the longest in all opera. He started planning the work...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2022

Isabel Bayrakdarian: La zingarella - Through Romany Songland

Isabel Bayrakdarian has carved out quite a niche with her recorded catalogue, defined by smart programming ideas. There was an...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2022

Revoiced

The combination of small-scale choir and saxophone quartet is a surprising one, though it would take a particularly crabbed purist...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2022

John Matthew Myers: Desiderium

Rarely does a tenor-voice recital succeed while so consciously lacking – perhaps avoiding – the ‘wow’ factor. The programme in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2022

VIVALDI The Great Venetian Mass

‘The Great Venetian Mass’ may look at first like a good old-fashioned liturgical reconstruction of the sort we associate with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Pan's Anniversary

In a letter dated March 6, 1905, Ralph Vaughan Williams accepted a commission from Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club to supply the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2022

SCHUMANN; WIDMANN 'Das heiße Herz'

The last couple of years have offered us some superb new song-cycles on disc – listen to Ruby Hughes singing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2022

MOUTON Missa Faulte d'argent. Motets

Writing nearly 70 years ago, Gustave Reese described Jean Mouton (before 1459-1522) as ‘the most gifted of Josquin’s emulators’, and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2022

MASSENET Songs with Orchestra

Massenet wrote over 300 songs during the course of his career, mostly with piano accompaniment, though he also orchestrated nearly...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2022

KUHNAU Complete Sacred Works, Vols 7 & 8

Disregarded by posterity as merely Bach’s immediate predecessor in Leipzig, Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) was appointed organist at the Thomaskirche in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2022

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---