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NIELSEN Carl Nielsen sung by the Danish National Choirs

The hero of Dacapo’s fourth recent recording of Nielsen’s ensemble songs isn’t so much the composer himself as DR, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016

Magdalena Kožená: Monteverdi

It’s been a while since we’ve heard Magdalena Kožená in Baroque repertoire. Her previous recordings of music from the period,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016

A & H de LANTINS Secular works

Hugo and Arnold de Lantins are somewhat shadowy figures (possibly brothers, though this is not proven) who rubbed shoulders with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2016

JANÁČEK Glagolitic Mass. Adagio. Zdrávas Maria. Otčenáš

When I interviewed Edward Gardner in 2014, he expressed regret that he’d not had the opportunity to conduct any Janáček...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

HOWELLS Collegium Regale

It was indeed fateful that Howells should have found himself in Cambridge during the Second World War in order to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2016

HEINICHEN , ZELENKA Cantatas & Arias

Augustus the Strong’s convenient conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697 enabled the Elector of Saxony to become the King of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2016

HANDEL Israel in Egypt

‘In this oratorio Handel saved his successors trouble by writing his own additional accompaniments,’ noted Winton Dean in his classic...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

GRIGORJEVA Nature Morte. Svjatki

This new album from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir reinforces their position as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2016

BRAUNFELS Lieder

Walter Braunfels’s career took flight, almost literally, with the composition of his 1920 opera The Birds, based on Aristophanes’s comedy....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 04/2016

Anna Lucia Richter: Liederkreis

Here is an unusual proposition. Anna Lucia Richter and her accompanist, Michael Gees, offer a recital of songs by Schumann,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016

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