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STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Asmik Grigorian)

Asmik Grigorian is undeniably one of the most exciting operatic talents on the scene today, as formidable performances as Salome,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

'Richard: Strauss & Wagner'

Nearly three years after I welcomed his fine disc of Strauss songs built around the humorous Krämerspiegel, Op 66 (7/21),...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

STANFORD ‘Cushendall – Irish Song Cycles’

Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Klaus Florian Vogt)

Heldentenors have a surprisingly respectable recorded history in the most introspective of Schubert lieder, and Klaus Florian Vogt has the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024

Angela Gheorghiu: A Te, Puccini

The discovery of a lost Puccini song might prompt shrugs from those who don’t know the composer actually wrote any....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024

MOZART Requiem (Jansons)

Mariss Jansons recorded the Requiem in concert in Amsterdam a little under six years before this Munich performance, with two...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

LASSUS 'The Alchemist' Vol 1

For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024

M HAYDN Die Ährenleserin

'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

HANDEL Theodora (Cohen)

‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024

A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini

This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024

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