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PITFIELD 'The Songs of Thomas Pitfield' (James Gilchrist)

Born in Bolton and still fondly remembered in his native Lancashire, Thomas Pitfield (1903‑99) could not have wished for more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

MOZART Complete Masses Vol 3

The third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Mozart’s Masses alights on three works from the mid-1770s, two of which have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

MESSIAEN Chants de terre et de ciel. Poèmes pour Mi (Barbara Hannigan)

By the time he was 30, in 1938, Olivier Messiaen had already impressed as a gifted composer of instrumental music...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2024

HEINICHEN 'German Sacred Cantatas'

Heinichen was a pupil at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche of Bach’s predecessors Schelle and Kuhnau. He practiced law briefly until quitting in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024

DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées; STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Siobhan Stagg)

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has seemed to put its best foot forward for the debut release on its own label...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’

Post-war recordings of Bach cantatas from Germany are a richer repository than is generally known, outside those on the major...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2024

YVAIN Yes!

You might already know the title number of Maurice Yvain’s Yes! from Susan Graham’s treasurable French operetta album (Erato, 5/02);...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024

NIELSEN Maskarade (Engel)

Nielsen’s second opera hasn’t always travelled well outside its native land. The ‘sung in German’ label on this newcomer rang...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024

MASSENET Werther (Vashegyi)

Some will doubtless raise eyebrows at Bru Zane’s inclusion of Werther in their ongoing re-evaluation of the lesser-known French repertory....

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2024

DE LA GUERRE Céphale et Procris (van Mechelen)

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Céphale et Procris (March 1694) was the first and only full-scale tragédie en musique to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024

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