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HAGEN 21st Century Song Cycles

Daron Hagen was Ned Rorem’s first composition student at the Curtis Institute during the early 1980s and this collection of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2018

GIBSON Sky-Born

Mara Gibson writes music filled with all manner of images and associations. The repertoire on this recording was mostly inspired...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018

Reed Tetzloff: Sounds of Transcendence

Charles Tomlinson Griffes and the painter Mary Cassatt are the two most noteworthy Impressionists America produced. Yet Griffes’s now century-old...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018

CRUMB Celestial Mechanics. The Yellow Moon of Andalusia

It has been George Crumb’s good fortune to possess both potent genes and a fertile imagination; his myriad beneficiaries include...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Fischer)

Adam Fischer launched his Dusseldorf Mahler cycle with an accomplished and individual account of the nighthawkish Seventh Symphony. I commented...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017

ELGAR Falstaff. Orchestral Songs

This is Andrew Davis’s third recording of Elgar’s Falstaff. It is, not to beat about the bush, a superbly perceptive...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Jordan)

Though the Vienna Philharmonic has recorded many Beethoven cycles, the city’s distinguished second orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, has found less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Currentzis)

You may be inclined to adjust your set from the very opening, and you should: the disc demands a high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

Nathalie Stutzmann: Quella Fiamma - Arie Antiche

Nathalie Stutzmann identifies a ‘Madeleine’ moment for her in this recording, recalling that Caldara’s ‘Sebben crudele’ was ‘the first aria...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

Matthias Goerne: The Wagner Project

When does an album become a project? Perhaps when it is spread over two CDs, as Matthias Goerne and Daniel...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018

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