Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Cozy though the next in our sequence of Christmas discs might all seem, the disc begins in timeless, profound fashion with three and a half minutes of plainchant, beautifully executed and in an appropriate church […]

After Pappano’s Tristan, Jessye’s Isolde: as part of Decca’s “The Unreleased Masters,” a selection of excerpts which “for various reasons, was never published”. Masur’s way with the Prelude is mobile, and climax-focused, the Leipzig Gewandhaus […]