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Baroque Cantatas from Gdańsk

This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17

VERDI Requiem (Dudamel)

If any Requiem is going to be suitable for performance in the 15,000-seat Hollywood Bowl, then I suppose it’s Verdi’s – famously operatic, by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Florian Boesch)

It’s less than six years since the release of Florian Boesch’s first recording of Winterreise, a widely praised Onyx account...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Bo Skovhus)

I had my problems with Bo Skovhus’s recent Schöne Müllerin (7/17), and many of the same issues, alas, blight his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Der Einsame

The ever-increasing tenor population in the Schubert song discography reaches a peak of sorts with Ilker Arcayürek’s intelligently conceived recital, executed...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW17

PALMERI Magnificat

Martin Palmeri is an Argentinian composer, born in 1965. His trajectory is curious from a European perspective, but not so...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17

NOWOWIEJSKI Quo vadis

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) is hardly a household name these days but at the beginning of the 20th century he was considered...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17

MOZART Requiem. Ave verum corpus. Miserere

Here is an unexpected addition to the massive and ever-expanding Mozart Requiem discography: a performance of the work from the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

ŁUKASZEWSKI Motets

Paweł Łukaszewski is a composer for whom choral music is not so much an expression of profound religious faith as...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW17

LORENC The Covenant

It’s not every day you encounter a piece that has been 225 years in the making. Composer Michaπ Lorenc might only...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17

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