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Jodie Devos: And Love Said...

Belgian soprano Jodie Devos burst on to the scene two years ago with a debut album on Alpha showcasing Offenbachian...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2021

All Things are Quite Silent

There are a lot of firsts here in a album that blazes a trail on multiple levels. This is the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021

TAYLOR Flowers for Mrs Harris

This gorgeous piece by Richard Taylor (music and lyrics) and Rachel Wagstaff (book) is a great example of how the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2021

SCHÜTZ Sacred Choral Music (Ensemble Polyharmonique)

Geistliche Chor-Music (Dresden, 1648) was designed to prove the essential requirement of a full knowledge of the science of contrapuntal...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2021

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Roderick Williams)

With 100-plus Winterreise recordings on the market, what place could any newcomer occupy in the company of Richard Tauber, Lotte...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

PURCELL Royal Odes

‘Occasional music’ – the term sounds as dated as an occasional table. Perhaps that’s why, with the exception of Come,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021

MEDTNER Songs (Sofia Fomina)

Thanks to the likes of Hamish Milne, Geoffrey Tozer and Marc-André Hamelin, Nikolay Medtner’s piano music has reached a wider...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

JOSQUIN Motets & Mass movements

Because of his ‘top-dog’ status among early Renaissance composers, questions of attribution loom particularly large in Josquin research. The issue...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2021

GOSSEC La Nativité

François-Joseph Gossec’s Messe des morts of 1760 was one of his first breakthrough works. With its rich orchestration, it soon...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

EAST Music for Viols and Voices

The overall sound made by the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss. The viols glisten with the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

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