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DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Roth)

As with London buses, so with French recordings of Pelléas et Mélisande. When welcoming Pierre Dumoussaud’s fine Alpha set from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2022

ABRAHAMSEN The Snow Queen (Meister)

Hans Abrahamsen was at work on let me tell you (3/16) when the Royal Danish Opera asked him for a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022

Russian Roots

This generous, natural-sounding recording was made in Potton Hall last summer. Guest soloist Katharina Konradi is not easily pigeonholed. The...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022

Rocking Horse Road

Whose voice would you take with you to a desert island? Jacqui Dankworth would come close to the top of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022

Mirages: The Art of French Song

Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles explore French song-cycles, familiar or otherwise, in an engaging recital, which also adds into the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2022

Letter to Kamilla

One of the earliest tragedies the Jewish people had to endure was the destruction of the Second Temple by the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022

Hypnos

La Tempête’s projects always give one plenty to think about. Here their subject is sleep and its metaphorical adjunct, death,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2022

Sasha Cooke: How do I find you

While many musicians experienced meltdown during lockdown (for understandable reasons, of course), others found creative and artistic freedom in the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022

The Queen's Six: From Windsor With Love

It’s like the teacher’s pet bursting out in a hail of expletives, or a Hollywood good girl gone suddenly bad:...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2022

Joyce DiDonato: Eden

We begin high up in the atmosphere with a chord that shimmers into being like the opening of Ralph Vaughan...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

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