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Your Tuneful Voice: Handel Oratorio Arias

Many moons ago, Robert King and The King’s Consort recorded two enjoyably diverse Handel recitals with James Bowman (‘Heroic Arias’...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

GRIEG Scenes from Olav Trygcason. 2 Choruses from Sigurd Jorsalfar

This disc collects together much of Grieg’s work with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norway’s ‘other’ star poet and writer of the late...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014

CHERUBINI Cantatas

Cherubini cannily steered a safe course through politically turbulent times, whether he was performing for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, responding...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

CHARPENTIER Pour un Reposoir

Following her recordings of 18th-century French chamber music, the violinist Florence Malgloire scrolled further back to Charpentier, who composed relatively...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2014

CARR Seven Last Words from the Cross

Born in Cornwall in 1961, Paul Carr pursued a successful career in operatic stage management before devoting himself full-time to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2014

Britten to America

Among Britten’s unrecorded works, The Ascent of F6 has long looked one of the most intriguing (the BBC hold an...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2014

JS BACH Missæ Breves complete recordings BWV 232-236

Now presented complete, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion’s exceptional Lutheran Mass performances, in this often unjustly neglected genre, remind us of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2014

MAHLER Symphonies 1-3

Lorin Maazel’s Mahler cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic was nothing if not tonally distinctive, the Fourth and Seventh being spectacular...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

Serenade: Songs for Clarinet

A delightful anthology of lovely songs transcribed for clarinet and strings by Fabian Müller that will surely be welcomed by...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2014

ZEMLINSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Considering that Alexander von Zemlinsky was in his twenties when he composed his two early symphonies, both works demonstrate an...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2014

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