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FAYRFAX Maria plena virtute

Here Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars present the four great votive antiphons of Fayrfax’s maturity – vast works in...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2024

ELGAR ‘There is Sweet Music’

Elgar was a master of the unaccompanied part-song, and Avie’s packaging quotes Donald Hunt’s encomium (‘Few composers in history have...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

DONIZETTI Songs, Vols 1&2

While there may still be numerous yet-to-be-rediscovered Donizetti operas, Opera Rara has embarked on a major investigation of the composer’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Marcon)

As the final example in Bach’s life of what Christoph Wolff describes as ‘methodically organised works of exemplary status as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Complete Solo Cantatas for Alto and Bass

This album from L’Orfeo Barockorchester intriguingly does not name a director. Are we to assume that violinist Michi Gaigg, their...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2024

Voices for Solo Piano: Smyth, Wallen, Alberga, Beamish, Yi (Hanni Liang)

Given the relative unfamiliarity of the works on this disc, I decided to audition each selection first without knowing the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Sorcellerie: Liszt, De Falla, Dukas, Mussorgsky

Although Franz Liszt never realised his ambition to arrange his Sonata in B minor for two pianos, his friend Camille...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Resonance: Beethoven, Benjamin, Dowland, Josquin (Benjamin Hochman)

Benjamin Hochman stands out for both the acuity of his programming and the refinement of his interpretations. This typically thoughtful...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

Sokolov plays Purcell & Mozart

The opening of Grigory Sokolov’s latest recorded recital takes me back to Horowitz’s 1986 Moscow recital (DG, 12/86), partly for...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024

LISZT Années de pèlerinage (Roger Muraro)

Années de pèlerinage (‘Years of Pilgrimage’) is without parallel in the Romantic piano literature. Begun when Liszt was 22 years...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2024

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