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Ashley Jackson: Ennanga

Ashley Jackson’s new album may be relatively short but it is long on feeling and artistic connections. She pays tribute...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2023

All Roads

The Shea-Kim husband-and-wife duo offer impressive performances of four works that require an equal musical partnership. The duo have won...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023

HIGDON Duo Duel. Concerto for Orchestra

Concertos are a popular format among contemporary orchestral composers: they not only tick multiple boxes in the commissioning process but...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 10/2023

PARRY Prometheus Unbound

Chandos already has a Parry catalogue to reckon with, including several of the secular choral works directed by Matthias Bamert....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

Infinite Voyage

The Emerson Quartet’s farewell to recording on their retirement after a distinguished 40-year career is strikingly different from their Beethoven-Schubert...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2023

JANÁCEK Katya Kabanova (Hrůša)

Conducted by Jakub Hrůša, Barrie Kosky’s modern-dress staging of Katya Kabanova caused a considerable stir in Salzburg last year. An...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023

You Did Not Want For Joy

This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Sirens' Song

One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Konstantin Krimmel)

In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

RODGERS Oklahoma! (Wilson)

This is important. Oklahoma! was a big moment – perhaps the big moment – in musical theatre’s ‘coming of age’....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023

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