Reviews
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Palestrina for All: Unwrapping, singing, celebrating by Jonathan Boswell Review
Palestrina for All: Unwrapping, singing, celebrating Jonathan Boswell Boswell, ISBN 978-1721968954, p/b, 176pp, £6.23, (Kindle ed.) £3 ‘I hate Palestrina’Read More -
Ready, steady, rock: ABRSM Journeys Guitar review
ABRSM’s new guitar resource offers independent learners a pathway to playing rock and pop – but does this route leadRead More -
Online resource review: Music Playtime
This review was written by Karen Marshall and appeared in the June 2020 issue of Music Teacher. Music Playtime anRead More -
Spem in Alium / Vidi Aquam – CD review
Spem in Alium / Vidi Aquam ORA Singers/ Suzi Digby (dir) Harmonia mundi HMM 902669.70 ★★★★★ The line-up for thisRead More -
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 – Keyboard CD review
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord (David Way 1982, after Hemsch) Deutsche Grammophon 483 8436 (2CDs)Read More -
Rattle ramps up the tension in LSO’s ‘safe’ Bluebeard
Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, LONDON Available on YouTube in the UK from 25 October forRead More -
Take an intimate tour around the enchanting home of an operatic legend
Chalet Monet: Inside the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. Text by Richard Bonynge. Foreword by MarilynRead More -
Digital inspiration
Are you looking for ways to hone your piano technique and become a more confident performer? Owen Mortimer introduces aRead More -
DVD of the Month: Orpheus in the Underworld
Barry Kosky seizes Orphée aux enfers and gives it a good directorial shake – already mad, he makes it madder. Read More -
Male soprano Samuel Mariño releases his debut CD
Samuel Mariño: Care Pupille Arias by Handel and Gluck The young Venezuelan newcomer Samuel Mariño possesses an incrediblyRead More -
Sweelinck: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music – Keyboard CD review
Sweelinck: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music Daniele Boccaccio on organs by Anon. (c.1550), Scherer (1612/13), and Schnitger (1678); harpsichord byRead More -
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis; Michael ‘A Fanfare Setting’ – Choral CD review
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis; Michael ‘A Fanfare Setting’ Helena Dix (s), Christine Rice (m-s), Benjamin Hulett (t), Roderick Williams (bar), BachRead More -
ROGER SCRUTON’S FINAL WORD ON PARSIFAL
Book Review: Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton 208 pages, Allen Lane As one might expectRead More -
J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos – Keyboard CD review
J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052, 1053, 1055, 1058 Francesco Corti (hpschd), Il pomo d’oro Pentatone PTC 5816 837 [64:08]Read More -
Distler, Zimmermann: Sacred choir and organ music – Choral CD review
Distler, Zimmermann: Sacred choir and organ music Christina Roterberg (s), Norddeutscher Kammerchor / Maria Jürgensen (dir); Arvid Gast, Stellwagen organ,Read More -
Poulenc: The Life in the Songs
Jon Tolansky speaks to Graham Johnson about his latest study of Poulenc’s life and works The song accompanist Graham JohnsonRead More -
Opera Stars perform at home in Met Gala
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Met has launched a fundraising campaign, The Voice Must Be Heard, and mountedRead More -
Stabat (Pärt, Vasks and MacMillan) – Choral CD review
Stabat (Pärt, Vasks and MacMillan) Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble / Graham Ross (dir) Harmonia mundi HMMRead More -
Bach: Orgelbüchlein BWV 599-644 – Organ CD review
J.S. Bach: Orgelbüchlein BWV 599-644 Stephen Farr, organ by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost (1730), Stadtkirche, Waltershausen, Thuringia Resonus RES 10259Read More -
CD Choice – Cav & Pag from Graz Opera
Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci Mascagni/Leoncavallo Oehms Classics OC987 ***** Bogged down is initially what I thought of a new recordingRead More
