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Huw Montague Rendall: Contemplation

Thirty-year-old British baritone Huw Montague Rendall, the son of mezzo Diana Montague and tenor David Rendall, has been causing something...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2024

Royal Throne of Kings: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare

Around half of this latest offering from those enterprising folk at Albion Records is given over to incidental music from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

RIDDERSTOLPE Untold Tales

Not even the Swedish duo of Kristina Hammarström and Anna Paradiso had heard of Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793-1878) until the latter...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2024

PUCCINI Messa di Gloria. Preludio sinfonico. Crisantemi (Repušić)

There hasn’t exactly been a deluge of new CD releases to mark the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death, so a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024

MENDELSSOHN Elijah (Pappano)

By the time he relinquished his position as chief at Covent Garden earlier this year, Antonio Pappano had established himself...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

HANDEL Il Messia (1768 Florence version)

Here’s a surprise, and an enjoyable one: a version of Messiah in Italian translation that came to light as recently...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2024

FAYRFAX Maria plena virtute

Here Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars present the four great votive antiphons of Fayrfax’s maturity – vast works in...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2024

ELGAR ‘There is Sweet Music’

Elgar was a master of the unaccompanied part-song, and Avie’s packaging quotes Donald Hunt’s encomium (‘Few composers in history have...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

DONIZETTI Songs, Vols 1&2

While there may still be numerous yet-to-be-rediscovered Donizetti operas, Opera Rara has embarked on a major investigation of the composer’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Marcon)

As the final example in Bach’s life of what Christoph Wolff describes as ‘methodically organised works of exemplary status as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

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