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An American Song Album (Melody & Bradley Moore)
Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019
SIBELIUS Kullervo (Dausgaard)
Set down hard on the heels of an acclaimed concert performance in Glasgow during May 2018, Thomas Dausgaard’s new recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
SCHÜTZ Cantiones sacrae 1625, SWV53-93
Schütz’s Cantiones sacrae (1625) is not the easiest collection to situate within his output. The combination of Latin texts, consistently...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Williams & Burnside)
After giving us Winter Journey last year (Signum, 5/18), Roderick Williams now turns to Schubert’s great song-cycles in their original...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019
SCARLATTI Quella pace gradita: The Recorder and Violin Cantatas
Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense output includes a staggering number of chamber cantatas, nearly 800 in all, most of them for solo...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019
PRAETORIUS Motets
The music of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) is clearly influenced by Giovanni Gabrielli and the Venetian polychoral style which flourished at...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2019
L MOZART Missa solemnis (De Marchi)
Respect for Leopold Mozart seems often to be given grudgingly. His achievements include a major treatise on violin-playing and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019
MACMILLAN One Equal Music
Large-scale choral works by James MacMillan, such as his early Seven Last Words from the Cross or the more recent...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019
LANDINI L’Occhio del Cor
With over 20 CDs of medieval music to their name, the (Italian) group La Reverdie are certainly well placed to...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2019
HOWELLS An English Mass. Cello Concerto
Commissioned for the 1977 Leith Hill Festival, Howells’s orchestration of the towering Te Deum that he wrote in 1944 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor (Aaron Sheehan)
This is the third recital devoted to John Beard, the singer for whom Handel wrote almost every significant tenor role...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019
Renée Fleming: Lieder
Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018
BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust (Roth)
This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2019
BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Bernius)
Without minimising either the monumental elements of Beethoven’s long gestated Mass setting or its sheer difficulty, Frieder Bernius coaches from...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
Russian Masquerade
Of course transcription involves compromise here and amplification there but the case of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives in this 1962 arrangement...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
Albrecht Mayer: Longing for Paradise
In this programme, Albrecht Mayer asks how composers react ‘when faced with the reality of war and a destroyed homeland....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Richard II. Songs of Travel (Yates)
When, towards the end of the Second World War, the BBC Drama Department asked Vaughan Williams to provide the incidental...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (Petrenko. Søndergård)
These two new releases see two conductors tackle Ein Heldenleben at different stages of their relationships with orchestras. Vasily Petrenko’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019
SIBELIUS Symphony No 1 (Nézet-Séguin)
Just Sibelius’s First Symphony? That is exceptionally short measure for a CD. The ratio of quality over quantity needed to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019
ROTA Music for the films of Federico Fellini (Chailly)
Enter the extraordinary world of Federico Fellini – a world where childhood dreams strive to lose touch with reality, where...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019
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