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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Shades of Romani Folklore
With so many superb young string quartets active on the music scene, it is heartening to realise that the genre...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2024
VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)
Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)
Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)
It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024
PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)
This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)
The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)
Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)
This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)
Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Vashegyi)
Leclair’s only commission from the Paris Opéra was a box-office flop, never revived on the public stage until modern times....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
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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