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BYRD 1589: Songs of sundrie natures

Reviewing these ensembles’ recording of Byrd’s 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs (6/21), I wondered whether they intended to survey all...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2023

ANTOGNINI 'Come to me in the silence of the night'

When it comes to choral music in Britain, are there more powerful kingmakers than Stephen Layton and The Choir of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

Roderick Chadwick: Souvenirs d'Oiseaux

Roderick Chadwick’s 2020 recital ‘La mer bleue’, featuring the first book of Catalogue d’oiseaux alongside Szymanowski and David Gorton, set...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

Giorgi Gigashvili : Meeting my Shadow

'I like to bring works composed in various epochs under one umbrella. I need to feel the connection between the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023

Zlata Chochieva: Im Freien

Schumann’s Waldszenen as a set rarely comes up for review. A shame, for these nine miniature tone poems – composed,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023

Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (Alexander Melnikov)

Here’s an aural equivalent of time-lapse photography, a quick tour of musical history from JS Bach (a point of reference...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023

RZEWSKI Dreams. War Songs. Winter Nights. Saints and Sinners (Bobby Mitchell)

Composed between 2008 and 2016, the works on this release count among the strongest and most evocative from Frederic Rzewski’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas Vol 4 (Jean Muller)

Here reaching its fourth volume, Jean Muller’s Mozart survey has been garnering warm praise for its sensitivity to the idiom,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2023

Piano Music of Francisco Mignone (Martin Jones)

In his early twenties, Francisco Mignone (1897-1986) left his native Brazil to study in Milan. He spent nearly a decade...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023

Music To Hear: Alfonso Ferrabosco, Music For Lyra Viol From 1609

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c1575-1628) was one of the greatest exponents of and composers for the lyra viol, a fretted...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023

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