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DOVE The Passing of the Year

The Convivium Singers are a 30-strong mixed-voice group, formed in 2009, youthfully fresh-toned and evenly balanced. They tackle Dove’s distinctive...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012

DELIUS Songs of Sunset. 3 Songs. North Country Sketches

Delius had a lifelong devotion to Scandinavia and Scandinavian music, so it is apt that this issue should offer versions...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012

DEBUSSY Songs Vol 2

Ranging from the early (but later revised) Verlaine settings in Fêtes galantes to the Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012

CHILCOTT Requiem

This disc of premiere recordings of music by one of the most popular British choral composers is dominated by the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012

BRITTEN Songs and Proverbs of William Blake

‘This music has the power to connect the avant-garde with the lost paradise of tonality,’ said Robin Holloway once about...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012

BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings FINZI Dies Natalis

It has almost become a rite of passage for English tenors to record Britten’s orchestral song-cycles. Mark Padmore has held...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY; MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos

Ray Chen, Gramophone’s One to Watch in February 2011, played these concertos at the Menuhin Competition in 2008 (Mendelssohn) and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012

HANDEL Saul

Saul is one of Handel’s most distinctive and greatest masterpieces. Composed only a few years before he ceased writing Italian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2012

DEBUSSY. SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works

I thought this was going to be a disc of two halves. In fact, it is more of a continuous...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012

Music From The Machine Age

There’s something uniquely exciting about hearing a keen young orchestra devouring difficult but exciting music whole, which is precisely what...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2012

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