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JIRÁSEK When the Soul Speaks

Jan Jirásek’s current representation on disc is quite modest, his most popular recorded work undoubtedly the austere Missa propria (1991...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

GOMPPER Double Concerto. Clarinet Concerto

David Gompper (b1954) is currently Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa but his academic career has taken in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

GLASS Three Pieces in the Shape of a Square (Craig Morris)

Craig Morris’s Grammy-nominated tribute to Philip Glass, who was honoured in December at the Kennedy Center alongside Cher, Reba McEntire...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2019

BYRON Fabric for String Noise FINK Celesta

The three compositions on these two new – half-filled – releases (best thought of as CD singles) each explore a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

BRAHMS Hungarian Dances (Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker)

One usually thinks of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances as light music, but evidently Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker does not. The levity and whimsy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019

Emőke Baráth: Voglio cantar

Having impressed on previous Baroque releases for Erato (Handel’s Partenope and Philippe Jaroussky’s ‘Storia di Orfeo’ composite, 12/15, 4/17), the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2019

Joyce DiDonato: Songplay

What we have here is the epitome of what we Brits call a ‘Marmite’ experience, with elements to love and/or...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

Portraying Passion

If you find yourself torn between a smoke-and-whisky-pickled cabaret take on Kurt Weill’s ballet-with-song Die sieben Todsünden (‘The Seven Deadly...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2019

Paris Madrid

Israeli-born, Paris trained and, as a guitarist, naturally steeped in the Spanish repertory, Liat Cohen here sets out to ‘tell...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019

TALLIS Gentleman of the Chapel Royal

The Chapel Royal’s place within English music can hardly be overstated: during the reigns of the later Tudors its membership...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2019

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