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'Morning Star’

‘Morning Star’ follows where 2019’s ‘Christmas’ (12/19) led – a festive release of a distinctly grown-up sort, this time taking...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2024

WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder (Joyce DiDonato)

Joyce DiDonato’s performance of ‘Schmerzen’ from the Wesendonck Lieder formed part of her ‘Eden’ album (3/22), a mixed programme crossing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024

TŮMA Motets. Dixit Dominus. Sinfonia (Válek)

Of the composers who spanned the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of the Classical period in Central Europe,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

SCHÜTZ Schwanengesang (Wilson); Italian Madrigals (Les Arts Florissants / Paul Agnew)

These collections were created 60 years apart at opposite ends of Schütz’s long and distinguished career. His youthful first published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Cyrille Dubois)

After the Gramophone Award-winning success of his superb complete Fauré (Aparté, 8/22), my expectations for this recording by Cyrille Dubois...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024

SCHUBERT ‘Lieder: Love’s Lasting Power’ (Harriet Burns)

Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have emerged as a significant lieder partnership in recent years, though their Schubert album, surprisingly...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

PÄRT 'Tractus'

Arvo Pärt’s Newman-inspired Littlemore Tractus sets the tone for this disc both musically and thematically. As Kai Kutman’s notes point...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2024

MOZART Requiem (Nelson)

Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)

The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024

LUDFORD 'Ymaginacions’

For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024

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