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MOZART String Quintets K515 & K516
Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023
Crossing Barriers: New Music for Brass Trio
For their debut recording, the Lantana Trio – Raquel Samayoa (trumpet), Stacie Mickens (horn) and Natalie Mannix (trombone), all faculty...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023
MORRIS Kaleidoscope
The music of Craig Madden Morris (b1945 in New York; not to be confused with the Grammy-nominated trumpeter, b1968 in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
FRANCK; VIERNE 'First and Last' (Christopher Houlihan)
Christopher Houlihan rightly views the French Romantic symphonic organ tradition as being bookended by Franck’s Grande pièce symphonique and Vierne’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
JS BACH; WUORINEN Charles Wuorinen: A Tribute (Steven Beck)
It’s easy to hear why Steven Beck’s staggeringly meticulous interpretations of Charles Wuorinen’s piano works pleased the late composer. He...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments at the Met
Renée Fleming’s artistic stature hasn’t kept pace with her superstardom – isn’t that so often the case? – and this...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2023
PORPORA L’Angelica (Sardelli)
You might recognise the names of three of the characters listed above from two operas: Lully’s Roland (1685) and Handel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023
MATTHESON Boris Goudenow (Marchiol)
A Boris by Mattheson? Well yes, and in its way perhaps no less political in aspect than Mussorgsky’s. Johann Mattheson...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
LULLY Psyché (Rousset)
Another Lully opera already from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques – we had Acis et Galatée only in November....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
HANDEL Semele (Walls)
How do you recreate the shock of Handel’s Semele – the musical drama that sent a scandalous frisson through London...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
AUBER Le philtre (Acocella)
You won’t get far into the plot of Auber’s 1831 ‘petit opéra’ Le philtre without a faint sensation of déjà...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
Voyage intime
'Voyage intime’ marks the start of a new recording partnership between Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch, already much admired together...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2023
Eros & Subtilitas: Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo
Spanish early music ensemble Tasto Solo made ripples with their first three recordings – a diverse triptych starting with 15th-century...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
A Day with Suzanne. A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
It had never occurred to me before to draw a Venn diagram showing the intersecting circles of lovers of the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
Kitty Whately: Befreit - A Soul Surrendered
This album might borrow its title from one of Richard Strauss’s best-known songs and culminate in a moving performance of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023
Tim Mead: Sacroprofano
Hard on the heels of Le Poème Harmonique’s programme of Vivaldi and others (Alpha, 11/22) comes this all Vivaldi album...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023
Matthias Goerne: Schubert Revisited
As Schubert’s posthumous fame grew, his most popular songs – which usually meant those published in his lifetime – received...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Fox. O'Leary)
Recordings of Rachmaninov’s Vigil service (‘Vespers’) used to be rare jewels in the choral universe, the domain, with some honourable...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
MOZART Coronation Mass (Arman)
The most recent foray into Mozart’s Salzburg church music pairs his most popular Mass from the period with the first...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Autograph piano version)
Mahler’s own piano version of his Das Lied von der Erde has struggled to establish itself in the repertory since...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023
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