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Peace I Leave With You: Music for the Evening Hour

Ah, Choral Evensong, that peculiarly English institution, which offers a welcome period of solace to so many when, to quote...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024

Echoes: Vocal Duets

Diva summit meetings can crackle with competitive tension, but don’t lower-stakes duet albums – made among friends – merit more...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

Magdalena Kožená: Czech Songs

Think of the petty humiliations Dvořák had to endure from a German-speaking musical establishment. Add the condescension of a posterity...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024

A Change is Gonna Come (Nicholas Phan)

There is liberation in the timelessness of these songs and settings, be they old or brand new. And timelessness is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2024

'Amore Siciliano’

Things start ordinarily enough. Cappella Mediterranea under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón create a mournful sound world, with recorders...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2024

STRADELLA 'Motetti'

Few composers lived such an exciting and repeatedly life-threatening existence as Stradella. Forced to flee Rome following a series of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2024

STANFORD 'Orchestral Songs’

Hard on the heels of the premiere recording of Stanford’s delightful ‘romantic comic opera’ Shamus O’Brien (5/24) comes a comparably...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Andrè Schuen)

Every encounter with the chilly depths of Schubert’s Winterreise is like a new beginning, according to Andrè Schuen in the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

SCHOENBERG 'Expressionist Music'

In their joint booklet note for this release, soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn make a passionate case for...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024

PITFIELD 'The Songs of Thomas Pitfield' (James Gilchrist)

Born in Bolton and still fondly remembered in his native Lancashire, Thomas Pitfield (1903‑99) could not have wished for more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

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