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FREEMAN Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem

Could this be the year when contemporary choral composers such as Alex Freeman, Helena Tulve and Matthew Whittall finally emerge...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

BIBER Requiem (Meunier)

Biber’s F minor Requiem of 1692 has had a decent spray of recordings, with couplings ranging from the composer’s own...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Jacobs)

The sound stage of this studio recording mirrors the unusual stage disposition designed by René Jacobs for the concert tour...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2021

ANDRIESSEN The Only One (Salonen)

A powerful creative force around which so many younger composers gravitated, his recognisable style admired for its ability to shape...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

SORABJI 100 Transcendental Studies 84-100 (Fredrik Ullén)

As a teenager in the early 1970s I became obsessed by rumours about a reclusive misanthrope who had composed the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2021

Zlata Chochieva: (re)creations

‘It is about creating something again, about reinventing and breathing life into masterpieces we know from the past.’ Thus Zlata...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

Mahani Teave: Rapa Nui Odyssey

Occasionally a recording appears with a backstory so extraordinary that its intrinsic musical merit risks being overshadowed. The 1946 Columbia...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2021

NØRGÅRD; RUDERS Works for Solo Cello (Wilhelmina Smith)

Wilhelmina Smith moves from the Finland of Salonen and Saariaho (5/19) to the Denmark of Nørgård and Ruders, two composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

LIGETI Etudes (Danny Driver)

It’s amazing yet not surprising how quickly Ligeti’s piano Études entered the international repertoire, with recordings by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2021

JANÁČEK On An Overgrown Path. Piano Sonata. In the Mists (Lars Vogt)

Lars Vogt is an artist who likes to travel unexpected paths and behind every recording there’s always a sense that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2021

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