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Jewish Vienna: Korngold, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Winter, Grunfeld

Here’s an appetising slice of Viennese late Romanticism, which showcases a handful of influential figures drawn from that city’s Jewish...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2025

Benjamin Appl: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In his 100th-birthday year, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012, known as DFD for short) is re-emerging as the pervasive presence that he...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2025

'Henry VIII on Tour'

A worthy follow-up to Ensemble Pro Victoria’s two previous highly acclaimed albums, ‘Robert Fayrfax: Music for Tudor Kings & Queens’...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025

Electric Fields

Barbara Hannigan joins a storied cast of female soloists who have lent their voices to Hildegard of Bingen. Actually, there’s...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2025

Attende Domine - Music for Lent & Passiontide

How many choirs start by singing together around the kitchen table? Or by kicking their feet in the same organ...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2025

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Jakob Bloch Jespersen)

Recordings of Winterreise featuring fortepiano have tended to feature tenors, presumably because performing the cycle in Schubert’s original keys has...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2025

A SCARLATTI Il giardino di rose

Il giardino di rose, la Santissima Vergine del Rosario was commissioned by Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli for a performance in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2025

GREENE Jephtha (Curnyn)

Maurice Greene’s oratorio Jephtha is not exactly a secret – it usually gets a mention in articles about Handel’s Jephtha...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2025

GIBBONS; MUHLY 'My Days'

There’s a wonderful sense of momentum to ‘My Days’, Fretwork’s new recital of Gibbons’s chamber music for viols. As we...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2025

Samsara: Schumann & Fauré - Songs & Song Cycles (Kate Lindsey)

Somewhere during the Covid pandemic blur of livestreamed performances, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey found her way on to my computer screen,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2025

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