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Inspired by Song
In his last release, ‘The Gentleman’s Flute’ (2/11), Stefan Temmingh focused on the kind of music experienced by the middle-class...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
From Spain to Eternity
Never mind the title: like the Lobo recording from La Grande Chapelle (Lauda, 3/14), this new offering takes its inspiration...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014
The Blossoming Vine
The first disc in The Sixteen’s Polish Baroque series explored the mid-17th-century music of Bartłomiej Pękiel (9/13). The second takes...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
TURINA Canto a Sevilla
Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic continue their exploration of the Spanish repertoire with this programme pinpointing Turina’s Andalusian roots....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014
STRAUSS Lieder
After Thomas Hampson’s recital disc last month, this will do nicely as a contrasting offering for Strauss’s 150th anniversary. Christiane...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014
SCHUBERT Songs
From a marketing standpoint, the presence of a dozen or so Ian Bostridge Schubert discs might suggest a saturation point....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil
How low can you go? To a choral director considering the All-Night Vigil this is, perhaps, the paramount question. Although...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2014
A & R PANUFNIK Songs and Trios
Two fascinating and quite different discs of music by the two Panufniks, father and daughter. ‘Dreamscape’ is a beautifully conceived...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014
PALESTRINA Lamentationes Hiermiae
There’s a restraint – and not just the enforced restraint of Tridentine edicts – to Palestrina’s four sets of Lamentations...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
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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