Book review - A Light in the Darkness: The Life and Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark)
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
What do you give a tenor celebrating his 60th birthday? If you’re Roberto Alagna, you naturally indulge yourself in a...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024
Jacqueline du Pré – and her many posthumous admirers – need to be rescued from her legend. The 1998 film...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024
Emanuel Schikaneder’s company at Vienna’s suburban Theater auf der Wieden staged several new fairy-tale Singspiels. Exactly one year before The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2024
Reviewing the last recording of Martinů’s The Greek Passion to feature in the pages of Gramophone – live from Graz...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024
What a joyous night has been captured here – a dual harvest of first fruit and vintage wine. Nadine Sierra...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2024
The impossible quest has been attracting storytellers since Orpheus. Picture a Day Like This, the fourth opera by George Benjamin...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024
Is it any accident that the well-established German soprano Mandy Fredrich has been heard mainly on opera DVDs, well ahead...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024
Many a major musical institution is largely ignoring the Schoenberg anniversary this year, so thank heavens for artists like Claire...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024
If anyone could make this project work, it’s Jakub Józef Orliński. Poland’s coolest classical star, a countertenor who sounds like...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024
'Enargeia’, Emily D’Angelo’s impressive debut album (DG, 11/21), received the prize for Best Concept Album at the 2022 Gramophone Awards....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
This unusual network player has ‘lifestyle’ appeal, but packs serious audio and computer technology...
One of McVeigh’s great strengths is his forensic examination of the infrastructure of Edwardian...
‘It’s a sizeable sum to lay out at one shot, but given the quality – and quantity – of what’s on...
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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