LIEBERSON Songs of Love and Sorrow

Anssi Karttunen | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerald Finley | Hannu Lintu

In the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism, the six realms – three good and three evil – delineate a life cycle...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

Handel (Il) Trionfo e del Disganno

Nothing is known about the occasion, venue and forces for Handel’s first Roman oratorio, Il trionfo del Tempo e del...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2011

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Alarm bells always start to ring when the cover of a performance of solo Bach gives the disc a moniker...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2016

WAGNER Rienzi

Daniela Sindram | Jennifer O’Loughlin | Leonardo Neiva | Marc Heller | Marika Schönberg | Milan Academia Chorus | Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse | Pinchas Steinberg | Richard Wiegold | Robert Bork

‘Only the very wise can so clearly perceive the very obvious’ was one thought when the 81 year-old stage director...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013

Liza Ferschtman; Tamsin Waley-Cohen Recitals

Liza Ferschtman | Tamsin Waley-Cohen

These two recitals have the Bartók Sonata as an important constituent but their focus is quite different. With Liza Ferschtman...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8. Violin Concerto

Augustin Dumay | Aurelien Pascal | Henri Demarquette | Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra | Marie Chilemme | Miguela da Silva | Sinfonia Varsovia | Svetlin Roussev

No sooner had I filed my review of Thomas Gould’s Riga version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (see below) than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

Vale: New Music for Flute

Cora Schmeiser | Distractfold Ensemble | Evan Johnson

Forget new complexity: some of the music on flautist Richard Craig’s second Métier disc might simply be called post-everything. When...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW17

SCHREKER Der ferne Klang (Weigle)

Anthony Robin Schneider | Barbara Zechmeister | Dietrich Volle | Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra | Frankfurt Opera Chorus | Gordon Bintner | Iain MacNeil | Ian Koziara | Iurii Samoilov | Jennifer Holloway

This recording of Schreker’s second opera, Der ferne Klang, derives from live performances in Frankfurt, the city where the work...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2021

Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia

Christian Vogel | das freie orchester Berlin | Emily D'Angelo | Kuss Quartet | Marion Ravot | Matangi Quartet | Mikayel Hakhnazaryan | Norbert Wahren

Whisper it quietly for now, but Emily D’Angelo is already well on the way to becoming the complete singer. Her...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2021

OCKEGHEM Les Chansons (Cut Circle)

Cut Circle | Jesse Rodin

This is pathbreaking. Certainly Cut Circle are not the first to sing late 15th-century songs without instrumental participation. The Orlando...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021