Search the Reviews Database

SCHUMANN Stille Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

Episodic ballads were hardly natural territory for Schumann, supreme master of the lyric epigram. Songs like ‘Belsatzar’ and the sprawling,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Requiem (Helgath. Arman)

As the trend for recompleting Mozart’s Requiem approaches its semicentenary, two new versions appear, each tackling the revered fragment in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Betulia liberata (Rousset)

The story from the Apocrypha of the Israelite widow Judith’s murder of the Assyrian king Holofernes – repulsive or uplifting,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

MAHLER Lieder (Christiane Karg)

For her first solo album for Harmonia Mundi, German soprano Christiane Karg turns to Mahler, joined at the piano by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2020

JOSQUIN Masses (Phillips)

This ends a hugely enjoyable project begun in 1986, not originally envisaged as a complete cycle of Josquin’s Masses but...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2020

HAYDN The Creation (Antonini)

Haydn’s joyous celebration of an idyllic, prelapsarian world seems particularly poignant in an age when our guardianship of the planet...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

DUSSEK Messe Solemnelle

The Solemnal Mass of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) appears to have been composed for the name day in 1811 of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols (Ross)

Hit play on this new recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and you’ll get a shock. Benjamin Britten may...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2020

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 10 (Sophie Rennert)

‘Springing like Minerva fully armed from the head of Jove’ was Robert Schumann’s euphoric verdict when the 20-year-old Brahms visited...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Redemption (Anna Prohaska)

This is an album about music and coronavirus. Anna Prohaska, it would seem, had been contemplating a disc of extracts...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2020

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---