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Lament & Liberation

The gauntlet isn’t so much thrown down as used to box the listener’s ears in the first release from the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2025

If the Fates Allow: Music By Purcell and his contemporaries (Helen Charlston)

Helen Charlston’s solo debut, ‘Battle Cry – She Speaks’ (Delphian, 7/22) launched the young British mezzo’s recording career with five-star...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2025

TRAETTA Rex Salomon

Tomasso Traetta (1729‑77) was one of those mid-18th-century composers who turned up the intensity of opera seria by combining the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2025

STYNE Gypsy

It is without question the most dynamic, the most instantly recognisable Overture in the Golden Age Broadway canon. You might...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2025

MUNDY Vox patris caelestis

William Mundy (d1593) is a composer hard to catch, partly because a large number of pieces are ascribed only to...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2025

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater (Janowski)

>In its grand scale and luxurious demands on forces, Dvořák’s Stabat mater sits somewhere between the Requiems of Brahms and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2025

DEBUSSY; MESSIAEN Songs (Magdalena Kozená)

The many links between Debussy and Messiaen remain under-explored in recorded terms, making this revealing programme of mainly early songs...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2025

Anne Akiko Meyers: Beloved

The title of this mini-album by Grammy Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and the Los Angeles Master Chorale is taken...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2025

Thomas Hampson: Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn

The question confronting any widely recorded singer of Thomas Hampson’s longevity and stature is if there’s really anything to add...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2025

BRAHMS German Requiem (Suzuki)

Having left behind their namesake and essayed the great choral works of Mozart and Beethoven, Bach Collegium Japan now make...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2025

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