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HANDEL 'Enchantresses' (Sandrine Piau)
This is an excellent successor to the album that Sandrine Piau recorded with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques 18...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
HANDEL Semele (Alarcón)
Leonardo García Alarcón cuts Semele copiously yet reinstates two numbers that Handel rejected and never performed. Part 1 is given...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Roth)
As with London buses, so with French recordings of Pelléas et Mélisande. When welcoming Pierre Dumoussaud’s fine Alpha set from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2022
ABRAHAMSEN The Snow Queen (Meister)
Hans Abrahamsen was at work on let me tell you (3/16) when the Royal Danish Opera asked him for a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
Russian Roots
This generous, natural-sounding recording was made in Potton Hall last summer. Guest soloist Katharina Konradi is not easily pigeonholed. The...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022
Rocking Horse Road
Whose voice would you take with you to a desert island? Jacqui Dankworth would come close to the top of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
Mirages: The Art of French Song
Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles explore French song-cycles, familiar or otherwise, in an engaging recital, which also adds into the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2022
Letter to Kamilla
One of the earliest tragedies the Jewish people had to endure was the destruction of the Second Temple by the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022
Hypnos
La Tempête’s projects always give one plenty to think about. Here their subject is sleep and its metaphorical adjunct, death,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2022
Sasha Cooke: How do I find you
While many musicians experienced meltdown during lockdown (for understandable reasons, of course), others found creative and artistic freedom in the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
The Queen's Six: From Windsor With Love
It’s like the teacher’s pet bursting out in a hail of expletives, or a Hollywood good girl gone suddenly bad:...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2022
Joyce DiDonato: Eden
We begin high up in the atmosphere with a chord that shimmers into being like the opening of Ralph Vaughan...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
STRAUSS 'Zueignung' (Sarah Wegener)
Though Sarah Wegener has an extensive discography, the majority of her recordings are ensemble efforts with concert works ranging from...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2022
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Benjamin Appl)
For the first release of his new relationship with Alpha, baritone Benjamin Appl dives deep into the wintry heart of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2022
PERGOLESI Stabat mater HAYDN Symphony No 49
A surprise awaits those expecting the voices of soprano Jodie Devos and mezzo Adèle Charvet to intertwine in the anguished...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
HANDEL Apollo e Dafne. Armida abbandonata
Francesco Corti uses orchestral pieces to creatively flesh out a programme presenting a pair of Handel’s best-known cantate con stromenti....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
DOVE; MARTIN; WEIR Choral Works
Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022
BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 1 (Christoph Prégardien)
Following its Schubert intégrale, Naxos is now launching a complete Brahms song edition, masterminded and annotated by Ulrich Eisenlohr. The...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022
JS BACH St John Passion (Gardiner)
After 22 years, Deutsche Grammophon returns to one of its most prodigious prodigal sons from the label’s pre-millennial era. As...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2022
MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Elisabeth Leonskaja)
Elisabeth Leonskaja had a productive lockdown. For her first release since returning to Warner Classics she has recorded the complete...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2022
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