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RIMSKY KORSAKOV Christmas Eve (Weigle)
It’s the night before Christmas, and while the villagers of Dikanka gossip and drink vodka, the Devil is up to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
DONIZETTI La Favorite (Frizza)
Filmed at the 2022 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Favorite is at once imperfect and significant: imperfect because there...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2024
DELIBES Lakmé (Pichon)
Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024
Jakub Józef Orlinski: Beyond
Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
WEELKES 'Gentleman Extraordinary'
Described as ‘Ireland’s premiere project choir’, Resurgam make their first commercial recording in collaboration with The English Cornett and Sackbut...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2024
SCHUBERT Lieder with Orchestra (Benjamin Appl)
‘Are orchestral versions of Schubert’s lieder really necessary?’ asks Benjamin Appl at the start of his booklet note. It’s a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2024
SACCHINI L'abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri
Born in 1730, Antonio Sacchini was a full generation older than Mozart, but his sacred drama written for Lent in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
POULENC Stabat Mater (Romano)
Founded in 2005, Mathieu Romano’s 17-strong Ensemble Aedes are vocal shapeshifters, slipping seamlessly from opera chorus to chamber choir. French...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
PEPUSCH Chandos Anthems
Handel was not the only musical visitor at Cannons, the country estate of James Brydges (the Earl of Carnarvon, later...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
MOZART 'Exsultate, Jubilate!'
‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
HANDEL Un'alma Innamorata (Francesca Aspromonte)
Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
GILLES Messe des morts
Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
DELIUS Mass of Life (Elder)
Preceded by a pair of highly acclaimed concert performances in Bergen’s Grieg Hall, Mark Elder’s new traversal of Delius’s A...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
BRITTEN Te Deum. A Ceremony of Carols. A Hymn to St Cecilia
Devised during Britten’s perilous ocean voyage back to the UK from North America in 1942, A Ceremony of Carols comprises...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
BARTÓK Cantata Profana & Transylvanian Dances KODÁLY Te Deum & Psalmus Hungaricus
Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus (1923) and Bartók’s Cantata profana (1930) have appeared together on disc twice before, I believe – by...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Geistliche Lieder (Klaus Mertens)
This sympathetic collection brings together songs with devotional texts, some of which derive from Bach with certainty (included in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
Forget This Night
The centrepiece here is Lili Boulanger’s emotionally turbulent 13-song cycle Clairières dans le ciel (‘Clearings in the sky’, 1914) on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
Le clavecin à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Jos van Immerseel)
For most readers, Jos van Immerseel will be associated primarily with historical pianos, on which he has over the years...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
Thomas Trotter: A Celebration
There have been only seven Birmingham City Organists since the post was created in 1834, and just four in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments musicaux (Adam Laloum)
Listen to Adam Laloum caress the gentle return of the main theme at the end of the A major Sonata’s...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
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