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JOST; SCHUMANN Dichterliebe

This album represents a deeply personal project – indeed, it could hardly be any more personal. The second disc features...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

HANDEL Joseph and his Brethren

'A inimitable composition’, enthused the Earl of Egmont after the 1744 Covent Garden premiere of Joseph. The oratorio’s success, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019

Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg

David Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019

DVOŘÁK Saint Ludmilla (Svárovský)

Told in a narrative reversal of King Roger and at considerably greater length than Szymanowski’s opera, Dvořák’s commission for the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019

Welcome home, Mr Dubourg

If the name Matthew Dubourg (1703-67) rings any bells today it’s probably because there’s a rather good story about the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

BOCCHERINI Stabat mater. Symphony G508

Ophélie Gaillard and her Pulcinella Orchestra turn to Boccherini for their latest release on Aparté, a finely programmed double album...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

Kathleen Ferrier: In Celebration of Bach

In June 1950 Kathleen Ferrier made her Viennese debut in a series of concerts at the Musikverein as part of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

AMNER Complete Consort Music (Dublin Consort Singers; Fretwork / Keane)

A near-contemporary of Gibbons,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated

Originally released on the Phoenix label in 2005, this all-Schoenberg disc gains a new lease of life courtesy of Navona....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

SANFORD Black Noise

David Sanford (b1963) is an alumnus of the University of Northern Colorado, New England Conservatory and Princeton. He has received...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

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