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Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann (Isata Kanneh-Mason)

Whatever this disc’s shortcomings – and they are few – it ranks among the most charming and engaging debuts I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019

JANÁCEK The diary of one who disappeared

Nicky Spence’s last solo Hyperion outing, on the final volume of the label’s Strauss Lieder series, revealed how his voice...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

Towards the Light

Rautavaara wrote the Credo for his Missa a cappella in 1972, adding the five movements to make a full Ordinary...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

Sandrine Piau: Si J'ai Aimé

This attractive disc finds Sandrine Piau and Le Concert de la Loge, with their conductor Julien Chauvin, exploring French orchestral...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

Iberia: Spanish and Portuguese polyphony from the Renaissance to today

Joël Suhubiette’s name was previously familiar to me as the director of Ensemble Jaques Moderne, and his career as singer...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019

An American Song Album (Melody & Bradley Moore)

Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

SIBELIUS Kullervo (Dausgaard)

Set down hard on the heels of an acclaimed concert performance in Glasgow during May 2018, Thomas Dausgaard’s new recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

SCHÜTZ Cantiones sacrae 1625, SWV53-93

Schütz’s Cantiones sacrae (1625) is not the easiest collection to situate within his output. The combination of Latin texts, consistently...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Williams & Burnside)

After giving us Winter Journey last year (Signum, 5/18), Roderick Williams now turns to Schubert’s great song-cycles in their original...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019

SCARLATTI Quella pace gradita: The Recorder and Violin Cantatas

Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense output includes a staggering number of chamber cantatas, nearly 800 in all, most of them for solo...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

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