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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 2

The Swiss-Chinese pianist...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances

Lorenzo Gatto is well equipped to play the Beethoven Concerto. His clear, ringing tone, coupled with an ability to play...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

WAGNER Gotterdämmerung

The conclusion to Frankfurt’s current Ring presents an unashamedly straightforward reading of the work that will appeal to those who...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut

Given that Jonas Kaufmann has recently taken on the role of Des Grieux, first in London and then in Munich,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015

POULENC Dialogues des Carmelites

Though hardly a star vehicle, this Dialogues of the Carmelites features four celebrated Gallic sopranos, any one of whom would...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

MOZART; MYSLIVEČEK Arias

Like the much-missed Lucia Popp, Simona aturová is a Slovak soprano from Bratislava. Her Haydn disc (Orfeo) was an Editor’s...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2015

CILEA Adriana Lecourvreur

Like other contemporary second-stage verismo dramas, Adriana Lecouvreur is chock-a-block with unfulfilled sexual promise and obsessive moving of period furniture....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

CATEL Les bayadères

The latest addition to the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s series of once well-known, now forgotten, French operas takes us to a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

BURRY Baby Kintyre

Babies suffer a dire fate in opera – tossed into the fire (Il trovatore) or thrown under the ice (Jenůfa)...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

BIZET The Pearl Fishers

From Naples comes a less than sharp revival of Bizet’s best nearly-nearly opera. The Pearl Fishers is always worth hearing...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

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