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TARKIAINEN The Earth, Spring's Daughter. Saivo

Outi Tarkiainen is a composer of rare moral conviction and geographical attachment, with a longing for the far north that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020

SHEPPARD Media Vita in Morte Sumus

John Sheppard’s monumental antiphon Media vita in morte sumus (‘In the midst of life we are in death’) is one...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2020

ROSSINI Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (Rizzo)

Rossini was 24 and recently arrived in Naples when, early in 1816, he was commissioned to provide the music for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2020

MOZART Mass in C minor (Manze)

His tercentenary and its aftermath have shown how there is so much more to Leopold Mozart than silly sound-effect symphonies...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020

MARTINI Requiem pour Louis XVI

Bavarian-born Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (1741-1816) settled in Paris and was promised a senior court post in 1788, just in time for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020

LOBO Masses, Responsories & motets (Cupertinos)

Following their Award-winning debut disc for Hyperion (1/19), Cupertinos turn their attention to Manuel Cardoso’s contemporary, Duarte Lobo, not to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2020

KASTALSKY Requiem

Kastalsky’s Requiem was written as a response to the First World War. Its genesis was complicated and it exists in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020

HANDEL Samson (Alarcón)

The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020

ELGAR Sea Pictures. Falstaff (Barenboim)

It’s hard on Elīna Garanča that her darkly opulent take on Sea Pictures should appear so soon after Kathryn Rudge’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Die Ruinen von Athen. Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt

In the right hands, ‘incidental’ and ‘occasional’ Beethoven, even from the often-overlooked and underrated period of the early 1810s, turns...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020

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