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Anita Rachvelishvili: Élégie

Anita Rachvelishvili’s first album (5/18) was a feisty recording of powerhouse mezzo arias in turbocharged readings. Its successor is a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

ZACHARA DE TERAMO Enigma Fortuna (La Fonte Musica. Michele Pasotti)

Forty years ago we all thought that the leading composer around 1400 was Johannes Ciconia, with various people called Zacara...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2021

SCHNITTKE Choir Concerto

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir have already set down Schnittke’s massively challenging Psalms of Repentence (or, better, Penitential Verses –...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2021

LEHRER The Queen's Six Murder the Songs of Tom Lehrer

For younger readers who have yet to discover him – and older readers for whom one of life’s essential pleasures...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

G IVES Requiem

Contemporary British composers have not shied away from setting the texts of the Requiem. Notable recent examples by David Bednall,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

SCHUMANN Frauenleiebe und -leben (Sandra Porter. Roderick Williams)

The question here is not how these two new recordings of Schumann’s often heard and increasingly discussed song cycle Frauenliebe...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2021

Alexander Soares: Threnodies

Alexander Soares’s debut recital ‘Notations & Sketches’ much impressed Richard Whitehouse (5/19). This second album, ‘Threnodies’, is similarly based around...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021

Imogen Cooper: Le Temps Perdu

In the charming booklet essay for her stunning new recording, ‘… Le temps perdu …’, Imogen Cooper explains the title’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021

Marco Rogliano: Paganini and Italian Genius

Twenty-two tracks, 22 premiere recordings of solo violin music from the 19th century, no fewer than 11 of them by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

Vikingur Olafsson: Mozart & Contemporaries

Just when you feel you’ve got the measure of Víkingur Ólafsson he veers off in an unexpected direction, and this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021

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