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LASSUS Musical Biography Vol 4
This is the fourth instalment in a musical biography of the true Renaissance man among late-Renaissance composers. As with preceding...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
BALFOUR GARDINER Complete Songs
Much of Balfour Gardiner’s music has remained under a bushel for years. Celebrated in church for his bracing anthem, Evening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015
CLÉRAMBAULT Miserere COUPERIN Leçons de Ténèbres
At their sublime best, Le Poème Harmonique’s recordings are so singular that comparisons with other performances of the same repertoire...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
TALLIS Mass for Four Voices. Ave, rosa sine spinis
This very enjoyable series continues its sequence of motets and hymns, with a Mass as the centerpiece – this time...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015
Alisa Weilerstein: Solo
It feels a little dangerous to say this, but the opening of Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Solo’ hits the listener between the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
Angel Blue: Joy Alone
A winner at Operalia in 2009, Angel Blue is one of the top young singers on the ‘to watch’ list....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2015
TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta
Maybe, just maybe, Anna Netrebko’s advocacy of Tchaikovsky’s last opera – namely this recording (made live in Essen) and the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2015
CORELLI La Follia
It’s rare to experience the level of artistic rapport heard on this recording from the Danish recorder player Michala Petri...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2015
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
Two discs here, the first a Blu ray with visuals, the second a hybrid SACD. In terms of sound, the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
BERIO Sinfonia. Calmo
From the last hurrah of Boccherini’s four simultaneous nocturnal parties disappearing round the street corner yet hanging in the night...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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