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MOZART Lucio Silla (Bolton)
It’s not even six months since I welcomed Marshall Pynkoski’s production of Lucio Silla from Milan. Now comes another DVD/Blu...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Kaufmann)
Jonas Kaufmann | Jonathan Nott | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
When you are as big a star as Jonas Kaufmann, when your instrument is fach-defying and your choices in terms...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2017
HOSOKAWA Lotus under the moonlight MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 (Momo Kodama)
Mito Chamber Orchestra | Momo Kodama | Seiji Ozawa
This is a rather belated release of a live 2006 concert that pairs a new Mozart-inspired work, receiving its Japanese...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021
HAYDN Symphonies
Do you remember the news story a couple of months ago in which a well-meaning parishioner decided to ‘restore’ a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012
Handel Saul
The new Teldec recording of Saul is a product of last year's Handel tercentenary celebrations. Recorded live in the Vienna...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1986
SCHUMANN Frauenleiebe und -leben (Sandra Porter. Roderick Williams)
Andrew West | Graeme McNaught | Roderick Williams | Sandra Porter
The question here is not how these two new recordings of Schumann’s often heard and increasingly discussed song cycle Frauenliebe...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2021
WEILL Die sieben Todsünden (Rattle)
Hard on the heels of ‘The Kurt Weill Album’, Joana Mallwitz’s confidently branded yellow label debut (DG, 9/24), LSO Live...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2025
EINEM Der Besuch der alten Dame
In the late 1950s or ’60s, if you were studying for A level, the tragicomedy The Visit of the Old...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
Bartók/Schoenberg/Veress Works for Strings
Camerata Bern | Thomas Zehetmair
The closest musical relationship here is between Bartok and his piano student Sandor Veress, especially in the last of Veress’s...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Chopin Etudes
Once faced with injury and the possible end of his career, Murray Perahia has made a glorious recovery. Here he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2002
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