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Licht der Welt: A Christmas Promenade (Christiane Karg)

I’m a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to opera singers doing Christmas albums, but Christiane Karg’s new disc...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

À sa guitare (Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia)

Je suis Barbara, je suis Britten … This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs Vol 3

Albion Records’ exploration of Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements of folk song in English with instrumental accompaniment has now reached...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021

R STRAUSS Four Last Songs. Capriccio (Gundula Janowitz)

The uncredited but intimately informed booklet notes to this reissue reference David Bowie’s discerning admiration for the Four Last Songs...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet

These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

PÄRT Stabat mater (Repušić)

Surely not another Pärt compilation! Yes, and a compelling one it is. While it is true that I could probably...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021

Dorothea Herbert: Die stille Stadt

The young German soprano Dorothea Herbert is clearly at the start of a promising career; a budding Wagnerian with several...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2021

HANDEL The Choice of Hercules. Dettingen Te Deum (Cummings)

Hedonistic ode meets bellicose Te Deum. On the face of it these two works make a left-field coupling. What they...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

GABRIELI Motets & Organ Works (Manfred Cordes)

It has been well over two decades since Manfred Cordes and his scrupulously excellent period ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen released their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2021

BRITTEN Les Illuminations CANTELOUBE Chants d'Auvergne (Mari Eriksmoen)

Britten and Canteloube make odd bedfellows, yet Mari Eriksmoen pairs them on her new Chandos album with the Bergen Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

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