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Upheld by Stillness: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections

This is a curious project. Suzi Digby and her new professional choir ORA champion today’s British choral composers as the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

CHARPENTIER Stances du Cid

This collection revolves around a range of seldom-performed songs by Charpentier. The title alludes to three stanzas on texts taken...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

Scattered Ashes: Josquin’s Miserere and the Savonarolan Legacy

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, vocal ensemble Magnificat directed by Philip Cave have created a programme of Renaissance polyphonic works...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016

ZAMBONI Madrigali e Sonate

Theorbist Marco Horvat and his Ensemble Faenza turn their collective microscope on the obscure mid-18th-century musician Giovanni Zamboni. Possibly Roman...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

SCHUMANN Lieder

The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote pins her colours to the mast in this recital, subtitled ‘Woman and Man, The Human Soul...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016

SCHMIDT Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln

The bar has been set – high – in Schmidt’s great setting of the Apocalypse by Harnoncourt and Kristjan Järvi...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016

JANÁČEK Říkadla

Much of Janáček’s music suggests quick reflexes prodded into spontaneous activity, as in such a work as The Wolf’s Tale...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

Journey: Two Hundred Years of Harpsichord Music

‘Journey’ may not be the most imaginative of possible titles, but it will do well enough for a recital in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016

RAVEL Complete Works for Solo Piano

Bertrand Chamayou from Toulouse has been called a prince of pianists, a hyperbolic claim, some might argue, for a musician...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at and Exhibition

The common denominator with these two discs is Mussorgsky’s Pictures. Antonii Baryshevskyi then moves on to a sequence of Scriabin....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2016

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