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Stephen Powell: Why do the Nations
Yet another move towards the playlist format for song recitals? If so, it’s a thoughtful one, with the singer acting...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022
MULLER Antillean Dances (Louise Bessette)
A native of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, Wim Statius Muller (1930-2019) studied piano and composition with Josef Raieff at...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
MACHOVER Death and the Powers
Tod Machover’s science-fiction opera about robots and humans, set to a libretto by Robert Pinsky, was designed with a spectacular...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 01/2022
KROUSE Symphony No 5. Symphonies of Strings Nos 1 & 2
Ian Krouse (b1956) is probably known best on the one hand for works for guitar quartet (1/14), one based on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2022
Sarah Aristidou: Æther
'We may not be able to change the world, but we can change our relationship to it, starting with our...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sadko (Zangiev)
When an opera is deconstructed – when it is given a new story, and the sets disassembled on stage –...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2022
MOZART Mitridate, re di Ponto (Minkowski)
For an opera that was not revived after its initial performances until the 1970s, Mitridate has done surprisingly well on...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2022
HOLTEN Schlagt Sie Tot! (Ringborg)
The subject of Schlagt sie tot! (2018) is Martin Luther, viewed through the personal and political aftermath of his nailing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2022
HENZE Das verratene Meer (Young)
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea made pretty shocking reading for this listener as a teenager, prompted...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2022
Handel’s Unsung Heroes
Handel loved to pit the voice against one or more solo instruments, whether in a spirit of competitive sparring or...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2022
FRANCK Hulda (Bollon)
Fabrice Bollon and his Freiburg forces have done much of late to re-examine the lesser-known operatic repertory, with a distinguished...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022
DVORÁK Rusalka (Bolton)
I first watched Christof Loy’s new production of Rusalka when it was streamed live from the Teatro Real in November...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
BARRY Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has provided inspiration for many composers with varying degrees of success over the years, yet Lewis...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Monteverdi & Friends: Vespro da Camera
This all-Venetian ‘chamber vespers’ places three Monteverdi pieces within psalms, motets, sonatas and a canticle by the composer’s collegial circle...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
Cecilia Bartoli: Unreleased
'Unreleased’, proclaims the minimalist cover of this Bartoli album from November 2013. Why the wait? In the booklet Bartoli explains...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2022
The Tree
What perfect timing. Just weeks after the announcement that, from 2022, girls and women will be included alongside boys and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
Messes anonymes
Anonymous Renaissance Mass cycles rarely make it into the catalogue, not even those that have helped form our understanding of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022
Alla Napoletana
In 17th-century Naples, the delineation between church, palace and street music was deliciously and dangerously porous. This mix of sacred...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022
VIVALDI Cantatas for Soprano Vol 1 (Arianna Venditelli)
Twenty one years and nearly 60 releases in, and still there are new series to open up in Naïve’s Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022
VERDI Requiem (Muti)
This release constitutes the fourth officially available recording of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti. It’s a very welcome addition...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
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