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An Old Belief
What might at first glance seem like a disparate programme of medieval carols, Renaissance lute songs, Romantic motets and 20th-century...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2022
Eastertide Evensong (Nethsingha)
Andrew Nethsingha mentions in the booklet that he has clocked up an estimated 8000 Evensongs in his life. As a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022
Anna Prohaska: Celebration of Life in Death
As musical responses to the pandemic go, this is a bold one. While today’s careful, not to say squeamish prevailing...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2022
WILBYE 'Draw On Sweet Night'
It’s four decades since The Consort of Musicke devoted an entire programme to John Wilbye (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 7/82), and the title...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2022
VERDI Requiem (Noseda)
For the first release in its digital-only Verbier Festival Gold series, featuring live recordings from the swanky Swiss festival, DG...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
SCHOECK Elegy Op 36 (Christian Gerhaher)
Othmar Schoeck wrote over 400 songs, and Elegie (1921‑22) is arguably his finest achievement in the genre. Like so many...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
ROSSINI Stabat mater (Gimeno)
Rossini’s Stabat mater is one of the glories of the composer’s output from his long post-retirement phrase. Its composition spanned...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022
F & F MENDELSSOHN Arias. Lieder. Overtures (Chen Reiss)
The chic waltz song ‘Italien’ became something of a popular hit after Mendelssohn published it in his Op 8 collection....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2022
MARTIN Requiem. JANÁCEK Otčenáš (our Father)
Recordings of Frank Martin’s Requiem are not exactly abundant, so this one is very welcome, particularly since this coupling places...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022
HEINICHEN Dresden Vespers
Unlike his close contemporary Telemann, Johann David Heinichen actually finished his law degree at Leipzig University before switching to a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2022
JS BACH Cantatas BWV 51, 82 & 84 (Miriam Feuersinger)
In 1731 Bach transposed Ich habe genug up to E minor for soprano and reassigned the oboe part to flute....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2022
Mortua dulce cano - A Florilegium of Late Renaissance Lute Music (Michał Gondko)
Micha Gondko here plays the so-called ‘Presbyter’ lute that seems to be from the 16th century: at least it has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2022
Yoav Levanon: A Monument To Beethoven
Yoav Levanon is an 18-year-old Israeli-French pianist. This is his debut album for Warner Classics, a programme with the flimsy...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
Fenella Humphreys: Caprices
I almost began this review by saying that the caprice is the star of the show, but I checked myself,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Transcriptions From Truro' (David Briggs)
David Briggs’s previous Vaughan Williams release for Albion (10/15) was an acclaimed bumper two-disc set ‘Bursts of Acclamation’, recorded in...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2022
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1. Moments musicaux (Steven Osborne)
The First Sonata is seldom encountered in performance, due to its half-hour length and the myriad interpretative challenges it poses....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
MOZART Works for Piano Solo, Vol 1 (Federico Colli)
Dear Federico, Since you’ve chosen to write a letter to Mozart in the booklet to your latest CD, I thought I’d...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2022
KREBS Keyboard Works, Vol 2 (Steven Devine)
Johann Ludwig Krebs was among Bach’s most accomplished students, and like many of his students and Bach’s sons as well,...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2022
HAYDN; SCHUBERT 'Live at Esterházy Palace' (Grigory Sokolov)
DG is making the most of its signing of Grigory Sokolov, one of the world’s greatest pianists and perhaps its...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022
GRANADOS; JANÁCEK; SCRIABIN 'Arc I' (Orion Weiss)
Orion Weiss approaches the oft-recorded Goyescas suite more as a classicist in line with recent versions from Garrick Ohlsson, Jean-Philippe...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2022
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