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MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

HESKETH Horae (Pro Clara)

The CD of Kenneth Hesketh’s instrumental compositions released three years ago (NMC, 7/13) offered a well-balanced sequence of colourful musical...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2016

GRANADOS Goyescas MOMPOU Variations sur un Theme de Chopin

Granados’s Goyescas is more than a suite of piano pieces: it’s a road trip where one encounters a diverse succession...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016

FELDMAN Palais de Mari CRUMB A Little Suite for Christmas

I can’t imagine Morton Feldman, cantankerous curmudgeon that he was, would have been thrilled at the prospect of having his...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2016

CHOPIN Polonaises

Pascal Amoyel, the enigmatic French pianist whose explorations of Chopin include a set of Nocturnes (Calliope, 2004) and last year’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016

Imogen Cooper’s Chopin

From the disc’s title we must assume that this is Imogen Cooper’s idiosyncratic (perhaps contentious?) take on a composer with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

I first became aware of Pascal Dubreuil through his recording of Bach’s English Suites, which Lindsay Kemp praised with reservations...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016

Where'er You Walk: Arias For Handel's Favourite Tenor

‘A singer of great excellence. His voice was sound, male, powerful and extensive. His tones were natural and he had...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016

WOLF-FERRARI I gioielli della Madonna

It’s not quite true that this is the ‘World Premiere Recording’ of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s über-verismo hit of 1911, as Naxos’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

VERDI I Due Foscari

Plácido Domingo could put it no better than Francesco Foscari, the decrepit and embittered Doge. ‘So this is the vile...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2016

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