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STROUSE Rags (London Cast Recording)

I have always been unreasonably fond of Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz’s Rags and would have given my right arm...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2020

SOMERVELL A Shropshire Lad. Maud (Roderick Williams)

Hubert Parry thought very highly of his pupil Arthur Somervell (1863-1937), singling out for approval one of his early settings...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2020

SHAW Is a Rose. The Listeners (Live)

Having first made quite an impression back in 2013 with the strikingly original Partita for 8 Voices, followed last year...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

SCARLATTI Il martirio di Santa Teodosia

Reflecting contemporary iconography, female saints, virgins and martyrs were irresistible subjects for Italian Baroque composers. Alessandro Scarlatti wrote four such...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020

ROSSI La Lyra d’Orfeo. Arpa Davidica

This triple album comprises two projects recorded 14 years apart. A few relatively better-known arias and cantatas are interspersed among...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

PROKOFIEV Songs and Romances (Margarita Gritskova)

Prokofiev’s 72 songs are less well known than other corners of his repertoire, so any chance to increase familiarisation is...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

PARK Choral Music (Epiphoni Consort)

When it comes to vocal music it’s less a case of boldly going where no man has gone before than...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020

LE JEUNE Le Printemps

Claude Le Jeune (1528/30-1600) was one of the more adventurous composers of the late 16th century and part of a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2020

LASSUS Inferno (Reuss)

As with Brahms, Lassus’s late style tends towards concision and seriousness – words he himself used to describe these qualities....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2020

HANDEL Continuo Cantatas

The harpsichordist Christian Kjos presents five continuo cantatas composed in Italy between late 1706 and early 1710. Nice, che fa?...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

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