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MEYERBEER Romilda e Costanza (Acocella)

Naxos has clearly taken up the Meyerbeer mantle from Opera Rara. With Il crociato in Egitto and Semiramide (A/06) already...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

HUMPERDINCK Music for the stage

Any recording of any music by Engelbert Humperdinck is to be savoured by his devotees, though we know better than...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021

Catriona Morison: The Dark Night has Vanished

With her rich tone that records as charismatically as Christa Ludwig’s, Catriona Morison achieves inviting surface lustre in this debut...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

Jodie Devos: And Love Said...

Belgian soprano Jodie Devos burst on to the scene two years ago with a debut album on Alpha showcasing Offenbachian...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2021

All Things are Quite Silent

There are a lot of firsts here in a album that blazes a trail on multiple levels. This is the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021

TAYLOR Flowers for Mrs Harris

This gorgeous piece by Richard Taylor (music and lyrics) and Rachel Wagstaff (book) is a great example of how the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2021

SCHÜTZ Sacred Choral Music (Ensemble Polyharmonique)

Geistliche Chor-Music (Dresden, 1648) was designed to prove the essential requirement of a full knowledge of the science of contrapuntal...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2021

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Roderick Williams)

With 100-plus Winterreise recordings on the market, what place could any newcomer occupy in the company of Richard Tauber, Lotte...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

PURCELL Royal Odes

‘Occasional music’ – the term sounds as dated as an occasional table. Perhaps that’s why, with the exception of Come,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021

MEDTNER Songs (Sofia Fomina)

Thanks to the likes of Hamish Milne, Geoffrey Tozer and Marc-André Hamelin, Nikolay Medtner’s piano music has reached a wider...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

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