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Shall We Gather: American Art Songs
The surprise with this vocal recital is that there aren’t more like it. The selected programme is prompted by pandemic-era...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021
Licht der Welt: A Christmas Promenade (Christiane Karg)
I’m a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to opera singers doing Christmas albums, but Christiane Karg’s new disc...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
À sa guitare (Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia)
Je suis Barbara, je suis Britten … This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs Vol 3
Albion Records’ exploration of Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements of folk song in English with instrumental accompaniment has now reached...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021
R STRAUSS Four Last Songs. Capriccio (Gundula Janowitz)
The uncredited but intimately informed booklet notes to this reissue reference David Bowie’s discerning admiration for the Four Last Songs...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet
These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021
PÄRT Stabat mater (Repušić)
Surely not another Pärt compilation! Yes, and a compelling one it is. While it is true that I could probably...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021
Dorothea Herbert: Die stille Stadt
The young German soprano Dorothea Herbert is clearly at the start of a promising career; a budding Wagnerian with several...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2021
HANDEL The Choice of Hercules. Dettingen Te Deum (Cummings)
Hedonistic ode meets bellicose Te Deum. On the face of it these two works make a left-field coupling. What they...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021
GABRIELI Motets & Organ Works (Manfred Cordes)
It has been well over two decades since Manfred Cordes and his scrupulously excellent period ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen released their...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2021
BRITTEN Les Illuminations CANTELOUBE Chants d'Auvergne (Mari Eriksmoen)
Britten and Canteloube make odd bedfellows, yet Mari Eriksmoen pairs them on her new Chandos album with the Bergen Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
JS BACH Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV32, 82 & 106
John Butt selects an intimate triptych that illuminates different facets and functions of Bach’s well-appointed church music. Two Leipzig works...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021
Gautier Capuçon: Souvenirs
A triple celebration for Gautier Capuçon, this three-disc set simultaneously marks his 40th birthday, 35 years playing the cello and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
Krzysztof Meisinger: Elogio de La Guitarra
For his Chandos debut, the Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger continues his love affair with the nuevo tango of Piazzolla while...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021
Alexander Gadjiev: Live
Despite the variety of piano brands and differing acoustic ambience throughout these live-in-studio performances recorded for the 2021 Sydney International...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
SCHUBERT Impromptus D899. Moments Musicaux D780 (Alexandre Tharaud)
If, like me, you were enraptured by Michael Haneke’s 2012 Palme d’Or-winning film Amour, then this disc should come to...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2021
LIGETI Études pour Piano (Cathy Krier)
In 2014 Cathy Krier released an intriguing album programming Ligeti’s complete Musica ricercata in between two groups of Rameau keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
DVORÁK The Complete Piano Works (Ivo Kahanek)
Doubtless you’ve heard, or at the very least heard of, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. But his Scottish Dances? They turn out...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021
CHOPIN Preludes. Polonaise-Fantaisie. Fantaisie-Impromptu (Aimi Kobayashi)
The Japanese pianist Aimi Kobayashi, now 26, released her debut recording over a decade ago. She was a finalist in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2021
CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Stephen Hough)
In answer to the reasonable question, ‘Who, at this late date, could have something fresh and original to say in...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021
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