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Welcome home, Mr Dubourg

If the name Matthew Dubourg (1703-67) rings any bells today it’s probably because there’s a rather good story about the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

BOCCHERINI Stabat mater. Symphony G508

Ophélie Gaillard and her Pulcinella Orchestra turn to Boccherini for their latest release on Aparté, a finely programmed double album...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

Kathleen Ferrier: In Celebration of Bach

In June 1950 Kathleen Ferrier made her Viennese debut in a series of concerts at the Musikverein as part of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

AMNER Complete Consort Music (Dublin Consort Singers; Fretwork / Keane)

A near-contemporary of Gibbons,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated

Originally released on the Phoenix label in 2005, this all-Schoenberg disc gains a new lease of life courtesy of Navona....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

SANFORD Black Noise

David Sanford (b1963) is an alumnus of the University of Northern Colorado, New England Conservatory and Princeton. He has received...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

KROUSE Armenian Requiem

Ian Krouse’s powerful Armenian Requiem, commissioned by Vatsche Barsoumian’s Lark Music Society, draws on traditional liturgical chant and poetry to...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2019

D'HAENE Music with Silent Aitakes

Gagaku, the music of the Imperial Japanese Court, has exerted a fascination on Western composers for many decades, not least...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

COPLAND; RAVEL; STRAVINSKY Symphonic Dances

You have to hand it to New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their intrepid leader David Bernard for sheer...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019

La Morte Della Ragione (Il Giardino Armonio, Giovanni Antonini)

I welcome Il Giardino Armonico’s commitment to filling our modern ears with such strange sounds with, well, open ears. As...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019

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