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KASTALSKY Requiem

Kastalsky’s Requiem was written as a response to the First World War. Its genesis was complicated and it exists in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020

HANDEL Samson (Alarcón)

The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020

ELGAR Sea Pictures. Falstaff (Barenboim)

It’s hard on Elīna Garanča that her darkly opulent take on Sea Pictures should appear so soon after Kathryn Rudge’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Die Ruinen von Athen. Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt

In the right hands, ‘incidental’ and ‘occasional’ Beethoven, even from the often-overlooked and underrated period of the early 1810s, turns...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020

Transparent Boundaries: Songs Set to the Words of Dickinson, Whitman & Emerson

This fascinating collection focuses on the two American poets set (probably) more often than any others, Emily Dickinson and Walt...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

MARAIS; TELEMANN Folias and Fantasias (Cavatina Duo)

The Cavatina Duo are always on the lookout for ways to expand the repertoire for flute and guitar. For their...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020

JÄRVLEPP Concerto 2000 & Other Works

Jan Järvlepp (b1953 in Ottawa) is a Canadian composer of Finnish-Estonian parentage. The works here are direct in expression, colourfully...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony KAY Fantasy Variations

Leopold Stokowski thought so highly of William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony that he conducted the work’s premiere in 1934 with...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020

DAUGHERTY This Land Sings (Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)

The premiere recording of Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Woody Guthrie recalls populist chords in American history when homeless citizens rode...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2020

ZEMLINSKY Der Zwerg (Runnicles)

Oscar Wilde’s late plays and stories, so un-politically correct and obsessed with death, proved rich pickings for composers and librettists...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

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