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PARK; TRIMBLE 'Songs from Northern Ireland'

Carolyn Dobbin and Iain Burnside have come up with another gem of a disc for Delphian (its predecessor, ‘Calen-O: Songs...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2024

MOZART Requiem (Pichon)

Pygmalion toured Mozart’s Requiem last year, including a well-received visit to the Proms. Their interpretation is preserved here on a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2024

LEIGHTON; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'That Sweet City'

Taking its title from Matthew Arnold’s nostalgic pastoral poem of 1865 Thyrsis (‘And that sweet city with her dreaming spires’),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2024

JACKSON The Christmas Story

A decade on, and Gabriel Jackson’s award-winning collaboration with Benjamin Nicholas and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, The Passion...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2024

Handel in Rome

Putting together three of Handel’s early Roman cantatas is a tried and tested formula, although John Butt and the Dunedin...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

JS BACH Weihnachts-Magnificat HANDEL Utrecht Te Deum (Doyle)

The pairing of Bach’s E flat Magnificat and Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum resonates surprisingly on several levels, although these giants...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2024

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio (Gardiner)

From the intense and heartfelt rapport between John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles captured on this recording, one would be...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 12/2024

ARLEN 'The Song of Songs, The Poet in Exile'

Vienna-born Walter Arlen (né Walter Aptovitzer) showed conspicuous musical talents as a schoolboy, striking up a long-lasting friendship with Paul...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2024

Songs of Joy and Sorrow

It goes without saying that Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang and German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser are outstanding soloists – but how...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2024

Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott: Merci

The theme of friendship runs through this recital – not only that between Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, a partnership...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2024

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