Wolfgang Holzmair : The Philips Recitals
As this welcome 70th-birthday retrospective reminds us, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair’s voice is surely one of the most immediately recognisable...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
The Complete Warner Classics Edition Teldec and EMI Recordings Kurt Masur
Like so many great conductors from the past, recent or distant, over time Kurt Masur evolved his own sound, which...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022
WORTHINGTON Passages Through Time
This is the second album Navona has devoted entirely to the music of Rain Worthington (b1949), though her works –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
MATIEGKA 6 Sonates progressives pour guitare, Op 31 (David Starobin)
It is typical of David Starobin to wind up his career as a recording artist with music by a composer...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022
DASHOW Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol 2
The heyday of electroacoustic composition, arguably from the 1950s to the 1970s when it was a vital strand of avant-garde...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music
Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022
ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works
Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022
Rivales
This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022
Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel
The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!
The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
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