Features
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice: which recording should you buy?
- Monday, October 5, 2015
Orfeo ed Euridice, the opera in which Orpheus placates the Furies with his lyre to rescue his beloved, exists on many recordings in at least two versions. In Gluck’s tercentenary year, Richard Wigmore picks the best.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final year
- Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The story of the last 12 months of Mozart’s life and his shockingly early death at 35 became something of an obsession during the 19th century – a situation that has barely abated since. Richard Wigmore unfolds the chronology and music of that extraordinary and fateful year
The Shostakovich Question
- Thursday, September 24, 2015
An isolated figure, working under one of the 20th century's most terrifying dictatorships, his music is emotional, controversial, misunderstood – and a guaranteed hall-filler. David Fanning asks: why are we obsessed with Shostakovich?
Can a £200 amp really be this good? Andrew Everard says it definitely can...
- Wednesday, September 23, 2015
‘Displays control, power and richness way beyond its price, and would give many a much more expensive amplifier a run for its money’
Editor's Choice recordings – Awards issue 2015
- Friday, September 18, 2015
Martin Cullingford's pick of the finest recordings from this month's reviews
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