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SCHUMANN 'Album für Die Frau' (Carolyn Sampson)

With so much awareness afoot over repressive patriarchal cultures past and present, how can – and does – anyone record...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021

SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire

‘A journey, starting with drinking wine with your eyes and eventually deriving sexual pleasure from hanging yourself in the night’...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021

MCDOWELL Sacred Choral Music

Paweł Łukaszewski; Ēriks Ešenvalds; Owain Park; Jaakko Mäntyjärvi; Cecilia McDowall: since Stephen Layton arrived at Trinity College Cambridge in 2007...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2021

BYRD "1588" Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of sadnes and pietie

Published in 1588, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs was Byrd’s first English-texted collection. Some individual pieces are very well known, but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2021

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu nostri (Daucé)

Vocal forces of just 10 singers supported by the same number of instrumentalists bring a level of intimacy that is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021

BRUCH Lieder (Rafael Fingerlos)

For all of his vast output of concertos, symphonies and oratorios, Max Bruch’s reputation stubbornly refuses to expand much beyond...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Rademann)

The publicity for this meticulous and beautifully conceived reading of the St Matthew Passion claims Hans-Christoph Rademann’s vision as somehow...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2021

JS BACH Cantatas BWV 45 & 198; Motet BWV 118

Philippe Herreweghe’s corpus of cantatas from Virgin, Harmonia Mundi and now PHI constitutes one of the most elegant and satisfying...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2021

Salisbury Meditation (John Challenger)

With the majority of our fine organs having been sadly silenced for so many months, it was heartening to see...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2021

YSAŸE Sonatas for solo violin (James Ehnes)

Lockdown may not have served many practical purposes but in musical terms this superb home-recorded set of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

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