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STRAUSS Five Songs. Salome (Jessye Norman)

The central work in this Strauss programme, captured live at the Royal Festival Hall in good sound in 1986, is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2022

RACHMANINOV Dissonance (Asmik Grigorian)

After triumphs on stage in Salzburg (Salome) and Madrid (Rusalka) that have already made it to DVD and Blu ray,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2022

PURCELL Odes & Welcome Songs

The British monarchy is enjoying an unexpected revival – on disc, at least. Scarcely a year after The King’s Consort’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2022

LALANDE Grands Motets. Dies Irae. Miserere & Veni Creator

Michel-Richard de Lalande spent his life in the service of the royal court at Versailles, in the course of which...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022

GESUALDO Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday (The Gesualdo Six)

Here The Gesualdo Six tackle two of Renaissance polyphony’s warhorses, an imaginative pairing that also welcomes two short works by...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2022

BRUHNS Cantatas and Organ Works, Vol. 1

Among that group of unfortunate composers who met an early death, Nicolaus Bruhns (1665 97) is sometimes unfairly overlooked. Although...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2022

HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Leon McCawley)

This is the first of Leon McCawley’s Haydn volumes to come my way, though by no means the first of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022

Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong

The idea of a musical refrain (a recurring theme, chorus or ‘hook’) unifies the works on this album, making for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

Méditation. Les quatre saisons du luth (Simone Vallerotonda)

Italian lutenist Simone Vallerotonda, who admits philosophy ‘has been his passion and salvation’, shares with fellow gut-pluckers such as Lukas...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022

Peter Dickinson: Lockdown Blues

Although occasionally veering towards sobriety, the pianist, composer and critic Peter Dickinson, a fine musician with a wealth of experience,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022

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