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CHAKER Radio Afloat. Vigil

Drawing from numerous genres but free from many of their constrictions, the alt-classical-world-music-jazz pieces coming out of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2024

MOSS Unseen Paths

Shortly before his death, Lawrence K Moss (1927-2022) had the good fortune to learn that a number of his works...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2024

FOSS Symphony No 1. Renaissance Concerto. Three American Pieces. Ode

This entertaining album was the offspring of a concert given at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the centenary of Lukas Foss...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Brahms - Reimagined Orchestrations

Listening to these polished performances, I marvel that the Kansas City Symphony was founded as recently as 1981. Kudos, then,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

SCHUMANN String Quartets, Op 41 Nos 1-3 (Doric Quartet)

Of all the indisputably great composers, Schumann has had to contend with more brickbats than most. Now we’ve finally scotched...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011

Urlicht: Songs of Death and Resurrection

Samuel Hasselhorn’s first orchestral release, this album follows his inaugural instalment of the ambitious ‘Schubert 200 Project’ (Harmonia Mundi, 11/23)....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024

Songs for Peter Pears

A hearty welcome to this exceptionally stimulating programme, devised – and essayed with penetrating insight – by Robin Tritschler. With...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

Peace I Leave With You: Music for the Evening Hour

Ah, Choral Evensong, that peculiarly English institution, which offers a welcome period of solace to so many when, to quote...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024

Echoes: Vocal Duets

Diva summit meetings can crackle with competitive tension, but don’t lower-stakes duet albums – made among friends – merit more...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

Magdalena Kožená: Czech Songs

Think of the petty humiliations Dvořák had to endure from a German-speaking musical establishment. Add the condescension of a posterity...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024

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