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Eros & Subtilitas: Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo
Spanish early music ensemble Tasto Solo made ripples with their first three recordings – a diverse triptych starting with 15th-century...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
A Day with Suzanne. A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
It had never occurred to me before to draw a Venn diagram showing the intersecting circles of lovers of the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
Kitty Whately: Befreit - A Soul Surrendered
This album might borrow its title from one of Richard Strauss’s best-known songs and culminate in a moving performance of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023
Tim Mead: Sacroprofano
Hard on the heels of Le Poème Harmonique’s programme of Vivaldi and others (Alpha, 11/22) comes this all Vivaldi album...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023
Matthias Goerne: Schubert Revisited
As Schubert’s posthumous fame grew, his most popular songs – which usually meant those published in his lifetime – received...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Fox. O'Leary)
Recordings of Rachmaninov’s Vigil service (‘Vespers’) used to be rare jewels in the choral universe, the domain, with some honourable...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
MOZART Coronation Mass (Arman)
The most recent foray into Mozart’s Salzburg church music pairs his most popular Mass from the period with the first...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Autograph piano version)
Mahler’s own piano version of his Das Lied von der Erde has struggled to establish itself in the repertory since...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023
MACHAUT Songs from Remede de Fortune
In January, reviewing Blue Heron’s recording of the Remede de Fortune, I mentioned that one of the problems was the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2023
FOX Trostlieder
A unifying theme on Exaudi’s third album of Christopher Fox’s vocal music is the devastation of armed conflict. Commissioned to...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023
CHILCOTT Canticles of Light
The Wrocław-based NFM Choir is no stranger to Bob Chilcott’s music, having previously recorded an acclaimed album of his a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2023
BYRD The Golden Renaissance
Byrd’s later years are a fascinating time for Tudor music, and for his 400th anniversary Stile Antico dedicate a whole...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2023
Xuefei Yang: Guitar Favourites
Around a decade ago, Chinese classical guitarist Xuefei Yang released a compilation album: ‘Sojourn: The Very Best of Xuefei Yang’....
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2023
Benjamin Alard: The Couperin Family
This is a live recording of a concert given by Benjamin Alard on February 1, 2020, as part of a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux (Nikolai Lugansky)
The Études-tableaux were not made for performing or hearing as a cycle. They are too much for one half of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023
PROCTOR Virtuoso Piano Works (Tyler Hay)
Simon Proctor (b1959) is best known for music for rare instruments. His Concerto for Serpent (1987) featured at some of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
NICOLAOU Etudes & Frames (Tamara Stefanovich)
At first one might describe Vassos Nicolaou’s 15 piano Études as elaborately detailed and structurally shipshape works that build upon...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023
MOZART Sonatas & Fantasies (Elena Bashkirova)
Some of my favourite repertoire features in this all-Mozart programme from Russian-born, Israel-settled Elena Bashkirova. There is plenty to admire...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2023
MOMPOU Música callada (Stephen Hough)
Stephen Hough’s interest in Federico Mompou is longstanding, as evidenced by a 1998 album devoted to the Catalan composer’s music...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
F MENDELSSOHN Das Jahr (Christina Bjørkøe)
With the (re-)discovery of women composers the hot topic de nos jours, it is quite mystifying that more pianists have...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023
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