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RIHM; DE WERT In Umbra Mortis

Sacred music features prominently in Wolfgang Rihm’s massive output, though his outlook is hardly doctrinaire – whether in such imposing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2021

MONTEVERDI Lagrime d'Amante

It seems, at first, astonishing that this is La Compagnia del Madrigale’s first recording of Monteverdi madrigals. The award-winning Italian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2021

FAURÉ The Complete Songs, Vol 4

‘Gabriel Fauré, still relatively unfamiliar to the general public, deserves a glory similar to that enjoyed by the greatest French...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR 'Heart & Hereafter' Collected songs (Elizabeth Llewellyn)

Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn’s debut recital album consolidates the favourable impression she made on Martyn Brabbins’s superb Hyperion recordings of Vaughan...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2021

CHISHOLM Songs

Linguists, ethno-musicologists and anthropologists may well be automatically attracted to this Erik Chisholm album of Scottish song and verse, dating...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

Appena Chiudo Gli Occhi: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violin ( Giuseppina Bridelli)

The Sicilian Alessandro Scarlatti and the Venetian Antonio Caldara probably crossed paths several times in Rome, for example during Lent...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021

Sean Shibe: Camino

The album cover shows Sean Shibe shorn of his luxuriant locks; photos inside catch him in the act itself, wielding...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2021

Francisco Fullana: Bach's Long Shadow

Francisco Fullana is hardly the first young violinist to choose Bach for a debut solo album. But not everyone does...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021

Tchaikovsky Plus One Vol 3 (Barry Douglas)

The third volume of Barry Douglas’s ‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ series matches its predecessors (12/18, 12/19) for inspired programming and noble...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2021

Sebastian Knauer: The Mozart / Nyman Concert

Nyman and Mozart go back a long way. In the booklet notes to Sebastian Knauer’s ‘The Mozart/Nyman Concert’, Nyman recalls...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021

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