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A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams is one of Britain’s finest exponents of English song, yet one forgets that he is also a composer...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

PASCOE Secular Requiem

Since graduating from the University of Bristol (where he studied composition with Derek Bourgeois), Russell Pascoe (b1959) has made a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Book 7

Over some 30 years Rinaldo Alessandrini has recorded and re-recorded Monteverdi’s madrigals, combining and colliding them every which way. Most...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2023

HANDEL Eternal Heaven

There is no shortage of Handel aria albums around, but not all take as much care in the planning as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023

Vadym Kholodenko: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Beethoven’s early Variations on a Russian Dance from the ballet Das Waldmädchen by Wranitzky has rarely been played better. Vadym...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

MARTINŮ Cello Sonatas (Johannes Moser)

What interpretative variety Bohuslav Martinů’s cello sonatas inspire – from the intimate, understated eloquence of Josef Chuchro and Josef Hála...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023

GUÐMUNDSSON Windbells

This is the third album to profile Icelandic composer Hugi Gumundsson, with a fourth on the way in 2023 from...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2023

BOWEN; BRITTEN; HOLST Chamber Music With Viola

It was during his student days at the Royal Academy of Music that York Bowen (1884-1961) first struck up a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023

CPE BACH ‘Light and Darkness’ Flute Sonatas (Manuel Granatiero)

If the name Manuel Granatiero is new to you, you’re nevertheless likely to have heard his concerto appearances on several...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2023

BACEWICZ; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets

The Dudok Quartet here offer us a pair of quartets from 1951, by Grażyna Bacewicz and Dmitry Shostakovich, and have...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 01/2023

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