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LEONCAVALLO Zazà (Soltész)
Christof Loy is making a habit of turning pandemic theatre to his advantage. In summer 2020 he conjured up a...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2022
HANDEL Arias (Barnaby Smith)
Voces8’s artistic director, countertenor Barnaby Smith, goes solo here with an album of extracts from Handel’s operas and oratorios, along...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
BRIAN Faust (Brabbins)
In his final years, the work of his Havergal Brian most wanted to hear was his fourth opera, Faust. His...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Taliesin’s Songbook
Champions of Welsh music past and present, the Cardiff-based Tŷ Cerdd label gives us a survey of 20th- and 21st-century...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
The Hermes Experiment: Song
The Hermes Experiment are a vibrant, deeply musical quartet. Pwyll ap Siôn welcomed their previous album, ‘Here We Are’, as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Francesca Aspromonte: Maria and Maddalena
Soprano Francesca Aspromonte follows her fine recital of Baroque operatic prologues (8/18) with an equally enterprising ‘concept’ album devoted to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
The Florentine Renaissance (The Orlando Consort)
On their new recording, The Orlando Consort collaborate with musicologist Patrick Macey on works by Dufay and Florentine music composed...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Winterreise (James Rutherford)
Almost six years on from the release of a handsome account of Schwanengesang (6/16), James Rutherford and Eugene Asti are...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Iestyn Davies)
As David Patrick Stearns noted in his ‘The Musician and the Score’ interview with Iestyn Davies in the last issue,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
PETRIDIS Requiem For the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos. Symphony No 3. Concerto Grosso
This may sound impossibly recondite, but I have been waiting a decade for a recording of this work to appear....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2022
PATERSON Say It To The Still World
‘A piece for electric guitar and choir’ sounds a little like one of those random combinations one might pick out...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2022
MARCELLO 'Amanti - Cantatas for Bass' (Sergio Foresti)
You can always rely on the veteran Italian baritone Sergio Foresti for interesting Baroque repertoire. And following hot on the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2022
JOSQUIN 'The Josquin Songbook - Music For Two Voices and Vihuela'
This is decidedly the oddest contribution to the Josquin year. The three performers here are beyond praise: María Cristina Kiehr...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2022
HAYDN The Creation (Savall)
Haydn conceived The Creation on the grandest possible scale, as evidenced by the 200-odd performers in the 1799 public premiere....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
DEBUSSY; HAHN 'French Vocal Music'
This appealing album of fin de siècle works – mostly for solo voice and chorus – by Claude Debussy and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
CHILCOTT Circlesong
Circlesong is an extended cantata for upper voices, mixed choir, two pianos and percussion, and is a revision dating from...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2022
JS BACH Cantatas Nos 35 & 169 (Iestyn Davies)
The emotional core of this album is Dieterich Buxtehude’s Klag-Lied. It’s a sublime performance from Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
ALBÉNIZ Complete Songs (Adriana Gonzalez)
Momentousness seems prevalent at every turn: the perceptive, passionate notes, the lavish, 112-page booklet and the general dignity of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2022
Wilhelm Kempff: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927-1936)
The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 6 (Howard Shelley)
With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
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