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Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's Unpublished Lieder (Christian Immler)

The selection here represents a little under half of Gál’s lieder output, nearly all of it unpublished to this day....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021

BRUCKNER Latin Motets (Klava)

Sigvards Kļava’s latest recording with the Latvian Radio Choir features not only first-rate performances of some of Bruckner’s better-known motets...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

Vanitas: Schubert, Beethoven & Rihm

We’ve seen Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte appear in a variety of couplings over the past year but this is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2021

AYRES Sacred Music

Although very much embedded in the UK choral scene, British composer Paul Ayres writes a lot for American ensembles, and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021

Stephen Hough: Vida Breve

To call this a concept album would be to diminish its power and timeliness. It is both a meditation on...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2021

Pioneers: Piano works by Female Composers

In this collection of 21 brief works, there is no great music, a lot of good music and a few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021

Christian-Pierre La Marca: Cello 360

Whoever came up with ‘Cello 360’ as the title for Christian-Pierre La Marca’s first album for Naïve deserves a pay...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2021

Vanessa Benelli Mosell: Casta Diva

Looking back through the Gramophone archive, I see that this gifted Italian pianist (b1987) has been appearing on and off...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021

REICHA L'art de varier (Ivan Ilić)

Whether or not Antoine Reicha’s all-but-unknown L’art de varier, Op 57 (composed between 1802 and 1803) represents the proverbial missing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives. Piano Sonata No 8 (Nicholas Angelich)

Erato’s booklet essay quotes Poulenc’s admiring description of Prokofiev at the piano, which notes that ‘the tempo never, never varied’....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2021

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