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MONTEVERDI Il quarto libro de madrigali

The sensual wrestle between pleasure and pain is at the core of many of the texts set in Monteverdi’s Fourth...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022

BARBER The Complete Songs

Three cheers for this enterprising anthology from Resonus Classics, which adds no fewer than 19 items already published by G...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2022

JS BACH Cantatas for Bass

This is not the first time Stephan MacLeod has recorded Ich habe genug, nor even the second. He sang it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2022

Joo Yeon Sir: Solitude

The standout performance here was specifically commissioned for this album: Through the Fog by Laura Snowden. It is an eerie...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022

Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux: Ostinata

In these days of customary moans that all string players sound the same (especially among the younger generation, where teaching...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022

Yuki Negishi: Enigma

Is there a more audacious way to commence your solo debut recording than by diving into Nikolai Kapustin’s wildly rhapsodic...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

SCHUMANN Novelletten. Gesänge der Frühe (Martin Helmchen)

The 1860 Bechstein pianoforte featured in the present recording is apparently a model identical to one of Franz Liszt’s preferred...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata D960. Drei Klavierstücke (Ayako Ito)

For more than two decades Ayako Ito has been performing on period pianos, such as the one built by Christopher...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

REUSNER 'Delitiae testudinis' (William Carter)

I’m not sure how much William Carter knows about necromancy or quantum physics. But the search for meaning through communicating...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2022

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 3 & 5 (Alexander Melnikov)

Alexander Melnikov’s excellent Prokofiev sonatas series concludes with three of the most modest of the nine. Not that ‘modest’ is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2022

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