Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
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VERDI Nabucco
As captured on this DVD, Nicola Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano’s orchestra and Renato Balsadonna’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Strauss Gala Concert
Numerous fine ideas here – which only half worked. An all-Richard Strauss gala makes sense for Dresden (one of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2015
ROSSINI William Tell
Verdi-Wagner year fell in 2013. That was also the year in which two dauntless Rossini festivals decided to stage, complete...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
REIMANN Lear; SALLINEN King Lear
Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
RAMEAU Castor & Pollux
Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s third opera, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Preceded by an old-fashioned Prologue...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
MOZART Opera Arias and Overtures
In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
MOZART The Magic Flute
As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
METCALF Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood must be the most celebrated radio play of all time. The original 1954 BBC broadcast...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2015
GASPARINI Il Bajazet
Handel completed Tamerlano in advance of the 1724-25 season, but the tenor Francesco Borosini’s arrival in London prompted Handel to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
The Steinmeyer Organ in Nidaros Cathedral
With a specification that runs to 146 stops and an amazing 36 couplers, the 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Trondheim is...
Reviewed in issue 07/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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