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CHAUSSON String Quartet, Op 35. Concert, Op 21

Chausson’s premature death in 1899 in a cycling accident left his String Quartet unfinished. Two movements were complete, with a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2013

BRIDGE Piano Quintet H49 SCOTT Piano Quintet No 1

The British Music Society originally issued these pioneer recordings of neglected works on cassette but it is welcome that they...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2013

BARTÓK Violin Sonatas

The unprecedented abundance of top-grade Bartók violin sonata recordings throws both critics and collectors into a state of heady confusion....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013

Virgins, Vixens & Viragos

I can’t think of another singer today who could match Susan Graham in an eclectic programme ranging across three centuries,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013

Chen Reiss: The Nightingale and the Rose

A fast-rising operatic star in Austria and Germany, Israeli soprano Chen Reiss follows her delightful CD of 18th-century arias (11/11)...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013

Open Your Eyes: Lieder for the Turn of a Century

A thoughtfully planned programme takes us back to the dawn of the 20th century, as heady late Romanticism was giving...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2013

Miserere: Music for Lent, St Joseph and the Annunciation

In purist terms, plainchant accompanied by organ harmonisation is an anachronism, and, though still widespread in church, it doesn’t often...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2013

Canciones españolas

What lies beyond the usual Falla songs that represent Spanish repertoire in vocal recitals? The initial answer in this disc...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2013

As You Like It: Shakespeare Songs

Rich and quite strange, to paraphrase Shakespeare, is the only possible summation of this dazzling, bewildering collection of songs written...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2013

SCHUBERT Lieder Volume 7: Erlkönig

More than any other singer, Matthias Goerne conjures a Schubert who once allegedly said of himself, ‘Sometimes it seems as...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013

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