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R STRAUSS Four Last Songs. Capriccio (Gundula Janowitz)

The uncredited but intimately informed booklet notes to this reissue reference David Bowie’s discerning admiration for the Four Last Songs...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet

These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

PÄRT Stabat mater (Repušić)

Surely not another Pärt compilation! Yes, and a compelling one it is. While it is true that I could probably...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021

Dorothea Herbert: Die stille Stadt

The young German soprano Dorothea Herbert is clearly at the start of a promising career; a budding Wagnerian with several...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2021

HANDEL The Choice of Hercules. Dettingen Te Deum (Cummings)

Hedonistic ode meets bellicose Te Deum. On the face of it these two works make a left-field coupling. What they...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

GABRIELI Motets & Organ Works (Manfred Cordes)

It has been well over two decades since Manfred Cordes and his scrupulously excellent period ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen released their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2021

BRITTEN Les Illuminations CANTELOUBE Chants d'Auvergne (Mari Eriksmoen)

Britten and Canteloube make odd bedfellows, yet Mari Eriksmoen pairs them on her new Chandos album with the Bergen Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

JS BACH Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV32, 82 & 106

John Butt selects an intimate triptych that illuminates different facets and functions of Bach’s well-appointed church music. Two Leipzig works...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021

Gautier Capuçon: Souvenirs

A triple celebration for Gautier Capuçon, this three-disc set simultaneously marks his 40th birthday, 35 years playing the cello and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021

Krzysztof Meisinger: Elogio de La Guitarra

For his Chandos debut, the Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger continues his love affair with the nuevo tango of Piazzolla while...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021

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