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Transparent Boundaries: Songs Set to the Words of Dickinson, Whitman & Emerson

This fascinating collection focuses on the two American poets set (probably) more often than any others, Emily Dickinson and Walt...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

MARAIS; TELEMANN Folias and Fantasias (Cavatina Duo)

The Cavatina Duo are always on the lookout for ways to expand the repertoire for flute and guitar. For their...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020

JÄRVLEPP Concerto 2000 & Other Works

Jan Järvlepp (b1953 in Ottawa) is a Canadian composer of Finnish-Estonian parentage. The works here are direct in expression, colourfully...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony KAY Fantasy Variations

Leopold Stokowski thought so highly of William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony that he conducted the work’s premiere in 1934 with...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020

DAUGHERTY This Land Sings (Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)

The premiere recording of Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Woody Guthrie recalls populist chords in American history when homeless citizens rode...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2020

ZEMLINSKY Der Zwerg (Runnicles)

Oscar Wilde’s late plays and stories, so un-politically correct and obsessed with death, proved rich pickings for composers and librettists...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

WAGNER Die Walküre (Rattle)

All the principals involved in this second instalment of Simon Rattle’s Bavarian Ring in progress have extensive stage experience of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

WAGNER Tannhäuser (Gergiev)

The German regisseur Tobias Kratzer has found an interesting frame story through which to parallel and illustrate the dramatic conflicts...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

MONTÉCLAIR Jephté (Vashegyi)

This latest collaboration between György Vashegyi’s Hungarian musicians and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is another triumph. Despite...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2020

Avery Amereau: Handel Arias

Call me insular, but I’d not previously heard of Florida contralto Avery Amereau. I’m glad I have now. Her burnt...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020

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