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BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Canellakis)

The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s Four Orchestral Pieces...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023

Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem

Lionel Meunier and Ricercar producer Jérôme Lejeune were working together on Vox Luminis’s critically acclaimed recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023

Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female Vol 3

The third and final volume of Sarah Cahill’s ‘The Future is Female’ offers a chronologically wide-ranging selection of music composed...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2023

WIEMANN I Give You My Home

Although advertised as a chamber opera – even a ‘site-specific’ chamber opera (of which more later) – I Give You...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright

Missy Mazzoli writes so brilliantly for the violin in Dark with Excessive Bright that it is hard to believe the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2023

BURWASSER Flights of Imagination

This attractive, well-played album gathers together in one place five disparate works by Daniel Burwasser (b1960) previously issued separately in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

Michael Spyres: Contra-Tenor

After ‘BariTenor’, which caused a considerable stir on its release two years ago (A/21), we have ‘Contra-Tenor’, ostensibly its prequel,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023

OFFENBACH La Vie Parisienne (Dumas)

A city of pleasure: nightclubs and hotels, conmen and sex workers, and an opening chorus set in a railway terminus....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023

Franco Fagioli: Anime Immortali - Mozart Arias

‘Sweet, flexible and extensive, being in compass more than two octaves’ was music historian Charles Burney’s verdict on Venanzio Rauzzini,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023

MOZART Die Verstellte Gärtnerin ('La Finta Gardiniera')

‘Moderately amusing and immoderately long’ was the much-missed John Steane’s witty summary of La finta giardiniera. Though I’d rate it...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023

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