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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Alexander Lonquich)

In his booklet note, pianist and conductor Alexander Lonquich writes that this recording grew out of his long and cordial...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

VIVALDI Sacro Furore: Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti

It’s an exciting and bold statement to release such a well-explored programme, a move that invites multiple comparisons, and in...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025

HAILSTORK Chamber Works

The Harlem Chamber Players – a collective of several dozen musicians named after the Upper Manhattan community they serve –...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2025

Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music

On what she has said is her last recording, Frederica von Stade applies her distinctive shine and tenderness to ‘Perhaps’,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2025

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (Welser-Möst)

It’s fascinating how quickly the tone of a recorded performance establishes itself. There’s a luxuriance about this reading both in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2025

JL ADAMS Atlas of Deep Time

Surface and depth have formed important elements in John Luther Adams’s music – whether in conveying the unforgiving landscapes of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce

Nathan Granner is an American singer in his 40s who has made a career, to quote his website, as ‘a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2024

VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)

Joan of Arc haunts the opera repertoire – an ideal opera heroine who inspired composers from Verdi to Tchaikovsky to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2024

RIHM Jacob Lenz (Ollu)

The special appeal to 20th-century opera composers of early 19th-century texts by Georg Büchner was famously established by Alban Berg,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2024

GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide (Chauvin)

The opening salvo in Gluck’s conquest of Paris, Iphigénie en Aulide scored a triumph on its premiere in April 1774...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2024

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