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IVANSCHIZ Chamber Music at the Abbey of Lambach

Sadly, there is very little to recommend here. Violinist Gunar Letzbor and Ars Antiqua Austria bring us chamber music by...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023

GRIEG; KÖRVITS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Duo Gazzana)

This feels – to use a footballing analogy – like an album of two halves. In the first, we have...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

DELIUS; SMYTH String Quartets

Among Delius’s earliest works from the late 1880s, when he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory, was a String...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur (Harding)

Theatre as artifice is the dominant idea behind Frederic Wake-Walker’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur – appropriately enough, perhaps, for an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023

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

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