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The Ghosts of Hamlet: Lost Arias from Italian Baroque Operas

Not all baroque aria recitals are created equal. A minority intertwine curiosity, imagination and insight. This collaboration between Roberta Mameli,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2025

VIVALDI Arsilda, regina di Ponto (Marcon)

Arsilda, regina di Ponto (1716) is a drama of confusion revolving around disguised twins. Lisea has been told that her...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2025

MOZART 'Haffner-Akademie'

Taking Mozart’s last 10 years as a starting point is not exactly stinting oneself. So it’s a tribute to this...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 06/2025

LALO Le roi d’Ys (Vashegyi)

This new recording of Le roi d’Ys is long overdue. Lalo’s wonderful opera, premiered in Paris in 1888, remains on...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2025

HANDEL Rinaldo (1731 version. Angiolini)

Towards the end of the 1730‑31 season Handel put on a radical reworking of his first London opera, Rinaldo. His...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2025

Vox feminae: Les Kapsber’girls

Less than 18 months ago we highlighted Albane Imbs as One to Watch as lutenist and founder of the vocal...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2025

Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

A warm welcome to this attractive and wide-raging anthology of Romantic European and Scandinavian part-songs, spanning the years 1825-1951. Reger’s opening...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2025

Northern Lights: Echoes from 17th-century Scandinavia

This engaging, generous album takes us to the royal Swedish court in the second half of the late 17th century....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2025

Jewish Vienna: Korngold, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Winter, Grunfeld

Here’s an appetising slice of Viennese late Romanticism, which showcases a handful of influential figures drawn from that city’s Jewish...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2025

Benjamin Appl: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In his 100th-birthday year, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012, known as DFD for short) is re-emerging as the pervasive presence that he...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2025

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