Search the Reviews Database

SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin (Ian Bostridge, Saskia Giorgini)

It’s quarter of a century since Ian Bostridge burst on to the scene with his first recording of Die schöne...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021

POULENC The Story of Babar (Miriam Margolyes)

First performed in 1946, Poulenc’s setting of Jean de Brunhoff’s children’s tale for narrator and piano has come to be...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021

OCKEGHEM Les Chansons (Cut Circle)

This is pathbreaking. Certainly Cut Circle are not the first to sing late 15th-century songs without instrumental participation. The Orlando...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

MACHAUT The Lion of Nobility (Orlando Consort)

The latest album in The Orlando Consort’s Machaut project features works from his ‘Prologue’, a fictional autobiography beginning his complete...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2021

HANDEL Alexander's Feast (Ghirlanda)

Alexander the Great’s drunken banquet leading to the cruel slaughter of the innocent population of Persepolis is compared in a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021

CHARPENTIER Messe à quatre choeurs. Carnets de voyage d'Italie (Ensemble Correspondances)

The subtitle of this disc is ‘An Italian travel diary’. In the mid-1660s the young Charpentier spent about three years...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina: Slavonic Reflections

From the Goldenweiser and Bashkirov stable, and a rare bird in the concert hall, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina carries the kind of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2021

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Whether or not Daniel-Ben Pienaar intends for you to proceed through his Schubert sonata cycle’s five discs in sucession, the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

JOSQUIN DES PREZ Inviolata (Jacob Heringman)

Jacob Heringman issued his first disc of Josquin intabulations back in 2003 and he has since included Josquin intabulations on...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 3 (Leon McCawley)

Leon McCawley’s Haydn series on Somm, begun in 2016, has reached its third instalment with six sonatas dating from 1767-84....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---