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SCHOECK Vom Fischer un syner Fru (Venzago)

Othmar Schoeck is probably best known for his song collections, continuing the melancholic romanticism of the Schubert-Wolf tradition into the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019

PURCELL Sweeter than Roses (Anna Dennis)

Soprano Anna Dennis hasn’t got the classic Purcell voice. Look through the composer’s discography and you’ll find Emma Kirkby, Barbara...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2019

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine (Boterf)

The bold claim that this is ‘the first recording of the Vespers in the alternative version proposed by the composer,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2019

LOEWE Brigadoon (New York City Center 2017 Cast)

Of all Lerner and Loewe’s Broadway shows – and it’s a small but perfectly formed list – Brigadoon has to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

BRITTEN A Hymn to Saint Cecilia (Doyle)

When it comes to a cappella vocal compositions, Benjamin Britten never surpassed A Boy was Born, the ‘choral variations’ he...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019

BERLIOZ L’enfance du Christ (Davis)

Made in tandem with a series of concert performances in Melbourne last year, Andrew Davis’s new recording of L’enfance du...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 106 & 182 (Amici Voices)

Defining a characterful selection of Bach’s vocal music can often be as elusive as the musical material itself. This skilfully...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2019

Stephen Costello: A te, o cara

The American tenor Stephen Costello needs no introduction, but he’s reintroducing himself anyway with this new disc of bel canto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2019

VERDI Stiffelio (Calvo)

Stiffelio has often been appended the tagline ‘Verdi’s most unjustly neglected opera’. It comes immediately before his Rigoletto-Trovatore-Traviata trio of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2019

STRAUSS Daphne (Kempe)

The more I listen to it, the more Daphne strikes me as among Strauss’s most moving and heartbreaking works: a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2019

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