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REYNOLDS Violin Works (Gabriela Díaz)
For two minutes one hears an unaccompanied violin playing jagged short phrases, upwardly slithering long lines and discreetly deployed double-stops....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
BIDDINGTON Music from Torrens Road: Orchestral Works
I am prepared to bet that New Zealand-born composer Eric Biddington (b1953) is as unknown to the majority of this...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
JS BACH Partitas (Eleonor Bindman)
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
WAGNER Parsifal (Wellber)
Filmed at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo shortly before Covid struck in early 2020, this Parsifal represents one of the last productions...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022
TESORI Blue
While themes of racial discrimination, injustice and racially motivated violence have simmered under the surface of the American musical theatre...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Henry VIII (Rose)
First performed at the Paris Opéra in 1883, Henry VIII was one of the works, along with Étienne Marcel (1879)...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2022
KORNGOLD Die tote Stadt (Franck)
This release lifts the audio from the DVD of Kasper Holten’s production of Korngold’s opera released by Opus Arte in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022
JANÁCEK Jenůfa (Rattle)
Following the release of Christof Loy’s Deutsche Oper production (8/15), this is the second filmed Jenůfa from Berlin to appear...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022
HORNEMAN Aladdin
The Overture to Christian Frederik Emil Horneman’s Aladdin was once among the most-performed pieces of Danish music. It is a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022
HOLLIGER Lunea
Modernist opera has a thing for men suffering psychological breakdown. Alongside Berg’s Wozzeck, a recent go-to has been the schizophrenic...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2022
When Sleep Comes: Evening Meditations for Voices & Saxophone
‘It’s been done before’, you may say. Well, yes and no. The first thing Nigel Short does in his introduction...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2022
Carolyn Sampson: Trennung - Songs of Separation
With a mixture of composers both beloved and utterly obscure, Carolyn Sampson and Kristian Bezuidenhout elect to start their often...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022
Golda Schultz: This Be Her Verse
In her debut solo recital recording, South African soprano Golda Schultz emerges as a master storyteller, an enterprising programmer and,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022
Master & Pupil: Exploring the Influences and Legacy of Claudio Monteverdi
The Belfast-based vocal ensemble Sestina was founded by Mark Chambers in 2011. A decade later they have released their debut...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022
Jakub Józef Orliński: Farewells
Many surprises here, starting with Jakub Józef Orliński appearing on the album cover looking thoroughly adult and fully clothed (no...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022
VIVALDI La Senna festeggiante
Those who enjoy Vivaldi as a composer of brilliantly attractive vocal music while finding his operas somewhat casual in their...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2022
SCHUBERT 'The Fair Maid of the Mill'
Nearly four years since Signum’s release of Schubert’s Winter Journey (5/18) and Swan Song (11/18), we get on to the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022
SCHUBERT '21 Songs' (Alice Coote)
The challenge of any Schubert recital is translating all that is implied by his miniature masterworks into a keyhole view...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022
SCARLATTI Stabat Mater & Other Works
Domenico Scarlatti is best known for the hundreds of keyboard sonatas that he composed during the latter part of his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2022
RAMEAU Nouvelle symphonie
I’m sure baritone soloist Florian Sempey and conductor Marc Minkowski won’t mind if I first praise the four other heroes...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022
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