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CHARPENTIER; DESMAREST Te Deum

The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

CALDARA Gloria RESPIGHI Lauda per la Natività del Signore

Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

BARTÓK Village Scenes JANÁČEK Říkadla STRAVINSKY Les noces

This is a scintillating collection. Les noces may be a work audiences either love or hate (is it a concert...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

JS BACH Cantatas 56 & 82

Two favourite Bach cantatas for bass voice sung by Christoph Prégardien, one of the most respected lyric tenors of his...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024

JS BACH 'Bach. Vision 1'

Stuttgart’s distinguished Bach credentials in the post war years were largely built on the twin pillars of Karl Münchinger and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2024

CPE BACH Magnificat. Auf, schicke dich. Ammonia fortunata

‘Far more than a mere bridge between the two artistic peaks of the 18th century’ is how I recently described...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

Leon McCawley: Natural Connection - Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World

From most pianists, this sort of grab-bag programme would tend to be a collection of personal favourites, perhaps played from...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024

Martin James Bartlett: La Danse

Don’t be fooled by the funky title-lettering on the booklet. The programme of ‘La danse’ is hardly calculated for kicking...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)

This pair of generously filled discs attests to the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams’s passion for this repertoire and his capacity...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Igor Levit)

This latest release from the pianist and activist Igor Levit is his personal response to the atrocities of 7 October....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

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