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DENNEHY Land of Winter
Donnacha Dennehy’s first album for Nonesuch, ‘Grá agus Bás’ (8/11), engaged with Ireland’s rich cultural and musical heritage, while his...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025
COULT 'Pieces that Disappear'
As suggested by this album’s title, Tom Coult’s compositions often engage with presence and absence – especially how music shapes...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Alexander Lonquich)
In his booklet note, pianist and conductor Alexander Lonquich writes that this recording grew out of his long and cordial...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025
VIVALDI Sacro Furore: Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti
It’s an exciting and bold statement to release such a well-explored programme, a move that invites multiple comparisons, and in...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025
HAILSTORK Chamber Works
The Harlem Chamber Players – a collective of several dozen musicians named after the Upper Manhattan community they serve –...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2025
Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music
On what she has said is her last recording, Frederica von Stade applies her distinctive shine and tenderness to ‘Perhaps’,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2025
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (Welser-Möst)
It’s fascinating how quickly the tone of a recorded performance establishes itself. There’s a luxuriance about this reading both in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2025
JL ADAMS Atlas of Deep Time
Surface and depth have formed important elements in John Luther Adams’s music – whether in conveying the unforgiving landscapes of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025
Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce
Nathan Granner is an American singer in his 40s who has made a career, to quote his website, as ‘a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2024
VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)
Joan of Arc haunts the opera repertoire – an ideal opera heroine who inspired composers from Verdi to Tchaikovsky to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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