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James Gilchrist: 100 Years of British Song Vol 1

Two unrecorded offerings by Holst launch what Somm promises will be a three-volume exploration of some lesser-known corners of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2021

James Newby: I wonder as I wander

Recitals focusing on wanderers and wandering are hardly rarities, but British baritone James Newby’s debut album for BIS brings a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021

WOOLF Requiem (Vox Luna)

Most composers don’t get round to writing a Requiem until they’ve reached middle age at the very least, so it...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2021

SONDHEIM Anyone Can Whistle

I smell a collector’s item. This cracking recording of Stephen Sondheim’s second Broadway show as composer/lyricist, Anyone Can Whistle –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021

SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin (Ian Bostridge, Saskia Giorgini)

It’s quarter of a century since Ian Bostridge burst on to the scene with his first recording of Die schöne...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021

POULENC The Story of Babar (Miriam Margolyes)

First performed in 1946, Poulenc’s setting of Jean de Brunhoff’s children’s tale for narrator and piano has come to be...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021

OCKEGHEM Les Chansons (Cut Circle)

This is pathbreaking. Certainly Cut Circle are not the first to sing late 15th-century songs without instrumental participation. The Orlando...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

MACHAUT The Lion of Nobility (Orlando Consort)

The latest album in The Orlando Consort’s Machaut project features works from his ‘Prologue’, a fictional autobiography beginning his complete...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2021

HANDEL Alexander's Feast (Ghirlanda)

Alexander the Great’s drunken banquet leading to the cruel slaughter of the innocent population of Persepolis is compared in a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021

CHARPENTIER Messe à quatre choeurs. Carnets de voyage d'Italie (Ensemble Correspondances)

The subtitle of this disc is ‘An Italian travel diary’. In the mid-1660s the young Charpentier spent about three years...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021

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