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HANDEL Apollo e Dafne. Armida abbandonata

Francesco Corti uses orchestral pieces to creatively flesh out a programme presenting a pair of Handel’s best-known cantate con stromenti....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022

DOVE; MARTIN; WEIR Choral Works

Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 1 (Christoph Prégardien)

Following its Schubert intégrale, Naxos is now launching a complete Brahms song edition, masterminded and annotated by Ulrich Eisenlohr. The...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022

JS BACH St John Passion (Gardiner)

After 22 years, Deutsche Grammophon returns to one of its most prodigious prodigal sons from the label’s pre-millennial era. As...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2022

MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Elisabeth Leonskaja had a productive lockdown. For her first release since returning to Warner Classics she has recorded the complete...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2022

Maxim Bernard: Hommage a Horowitz

There are many ways to make a debut disc stand out, as stand out it must. A prize-winner of a...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2022

B-A-C-H: Anatomy of A Motif (Simon Johnson)

Having spent 13 years as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Simon Johnson took...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022

Tianxu An: Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninov - Prokofiev

You might have heard of the Chinese pianist Tianxu An before, not because of his piano-playing but because of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin

Ivo Pogorelich turns to Chopin for his second Sony solo recital, symbolising a return to the scene of his youthful...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022

BYRD Keyboard Music (Friederike Chylek)

With this new collection of works by William Byrd, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek returns to a composer who has been a...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2022

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