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GASSMANN Opera Arias (Ania Vegry)

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) lists 21 operas by Florian Leopold Gassmann but most readers would be hard-pressed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

Anna Prohaska: Paradise Lost

As one might expect from its Miltonic title, Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake’s ‘Paradise Lost’ takes the Biblical narrative of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

Véronique Gens: Nuits

A co-production between Alpha and Palazzetto Bru Zane, Véronique Gens’s ‘Nuits’ is basically a recital of mélodies for soprano and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

Natalya Romaniw: Arion - Voyage of a Slavic Soul

There are few things more satisfying for a critic than watching a promising young singer blossom into a major artist....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

ZELENKA Missa 1724 (Luks)

This imaginary Mass is constructed from motley liturgical pieces created for various unknown occasions during the first half of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020

VENABLES Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

I’m ashamed to report that this is my first encounter with the music of Ian Venables and it immediately set...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

THWAITES From Five Continents - Choral music and songs

If the name Penelope Thwaites is familiar it’s probably as a pianist. Australian-born, London-based Thwaites has recorded extensively and is...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY All-Night Vigil (Kjava)

Tchaikovsky’s settings for the Orthodox Vigil service (which comprises Vespers followed by Matins and the First Hour in the Byzantine...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2020

SCHUBERT Songs 'Where only stars can hear us' (Karim Sulayman)

Here from Avie comes another Lieder disc, following up on Kyle Stegall and Eric Zivian’s Schumann recital (10/19), where the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020

PARRY Songs of Farewell (Westminster Abbey Choir)

The four composers were all born within the two decades from 1848 and, to varying degrees, had an eye and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020

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