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CHARPENTIER Impressions d'Italie. Didon; La Vie du poète. La Fete des myrtes

Here are Charpentier’s two auditions for the Prix de Rome written in Paris in 1887 and two ‘on-site’ winner’s pieces...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem

John Eliot Gardiner first recorded the German Requiem in 1990, one of the first discs with his then newly formed...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012

Brahms Works for chorus and orchestra

Created last year expressly for conductor Philippe Herreweghe to explore on disc his wide-ranging musicological and interpretative interests, the PHI...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2012

BLACKFORD Not in our time

Blackford’s third major choral and orchestral work will, I feel sure, be quickly added to that illustrious lineage of pacifist...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012

JS BACH Cantatas, Vol 50

The half-century volume of this most considered of Bach cantata series reaches that point, late in the journey, where only...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2012

Simon Trpčeski

This is Simon Trp∂eski’s first mixed recital disc since his acclaimed debut album for EMI in 2002 (8/02), the first...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

Grigory Sokolov plays…

Sokolov first came to attention by winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966, aged 16. For his final audition he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

WAGNER Overtures and Preludes

A few words of clarification before tackling the performances, as most of the booklet is taken up with an imaginary...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

VIERNE Sympnies Nos 2 & 3

The sound is magnificent. The Gloucester Cathedral organ displays its Gallic credentials as Ashley Grote goads it to enunciate French...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013

SCHUMANN Symphonische Etuden. Arabesque. Waldszenen

Martin Helmchen’s programme explores the extremes of Schumann as a piano composer, at both his most inward and his most...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2013

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