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ABRAHÁM Ball at the Savoy

When does an operetta become a musical? Paul Abrahám’s 1932 jazz operetta Ball at the Savoy – which opened in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

SCHUMANN Complete Songs (Christian Gerhaher )

It was nearly five years ago that Christian Gerhaher, arguably the finest and most fascinating lieder singer working today, revealed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021

More Honourable Than the Cherubim

For those who love Rachmaninov’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil) and regularly reflect in wonderment at the depth and resonance of Russian...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

Voces8: Infinity

Why do we listen to music? Is it about stimulation or oblivion, medication, meditation or a conversation? The answer seems...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2021

Anita Rachvelishvili: Élégie

Anita Rachvelishvili’s first album (5/18) was a feisty recording of powerhouse mezzo arias in turbocharged readings. Its successor is a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

ZACHARA DE TERAMO Enigma Fortuna (La Fonte Musica. Michele Pasotti)

Forty years ago we all thought that the leading composer around 1400 was Johannes Ciconia, with various people called Zacara...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2021

SCHNITTKE Choir Concerto

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir have already set down Schnittke’s massively challenging Psalms of Repentence (or, better, Penitential Verses –...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2021

LEHRER The Queen's Six Murder the Songs of Tom Lehrer

For younger readers who have yet to discover him – and older readers for whom one of life’s essential pleasures...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

G IVES Requiem

Contemporary British composers have not shied away from setting the texts of the Requiem. Notable recent examples by David Bednall,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

SCHUMANN Frauenleiebe und -leben (Sandra Porter. Roderick Williams)

The question here is not how these two new recordings of Schumann’s often heard and increasingly discussed song cycle Frauenliebe...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2021

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