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STEFFANI Lagrime Dolorose

The musical reputation of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is spreading gradually beyond the awareness of a few scholarly cognoscenti but his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Winterreise

For sheer vocal splendour, Jonas Kaufmann is unrivalled in Winterreise since Jon Vickers, whose controversial 1983 recording is revelatory or...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Wanderers Nachtlied

Schubert is once reported to have exclaimed to a friend, ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ His alleged...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

Music for a While: Improvisations on Henry Purcell

Having applied Baroque instruments to 20th-century Latin standards in ‘Los pájaros perdidos’ (Virgin, 5/12), for her latest experiment Christina Pluhar...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

POULENC Stabat Mater

The comparative rarity here is the Sept Répons de Ténèbres that Poulenc wrote in 1961 to a commission from Leonard...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014

PÄRT Berlin Mass. Seven Magnificat Antiphons

While one might legitimately question the need for another anthology of choral music by Arvo Pärt, this recording creates the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014

ORFF Carmina Burana

Despite being regarded by some commentators as the work of an ‘odious opportunist’, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana remains one of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014

KARAINDROU Medea

Eleni Karaindrou (b1941) is best known for her cinema scores, especially to Theo Angelopoulos’s films (5/99, 12/04, 6/09). The 17...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

HERSANT Stabat Mater. Clair Obscure

Among the generation of French composers who emerged after the dissolution of the avant-garde, Philippe Hersant (b1948) occupies a distinctive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op 3/2. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Eternal source of light divine was written (but perhaps not performed) for the birthday of Queen Anne in 1713. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

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