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BEETHOVEN Quartets Op 18 Nos 3-5

Founded in 1953 with the distinguished cellist William Pleeth behind the project, the Allegri Quartet is celebrating its 60th anniversary...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013

A Tribute to Faustina Bordoni

Faustina Bordoni was one half of Handel’s so-called ‘Rival Queens’ for just under three seasons (172628), and in 1730 she...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013

Piotr Beczała: Verdi Arias

This disc, recorded piecemeal in Warsaw over four months in 2011/12, is not an example of how to enliven and...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin

This recent Polish/Spanish co-production has us view the opera (like Pushkin’s novel) through the eyes of Onegin in old age....

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

ROSSINI La gazza ladra

Damiano Michieletto’s Pesaro Festival production of Rossini’s richly imagined domestic melodramma was generally despaired of when it was first seen...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2013

POULENC La voix humaine

Poulenc and his estate never let others do it (officially) until now but the composer himself could never resist accompanying...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

MYSLIVEČEK Medonte

It is the unenviable fate of any composer who was active in the 1770s to be compared to Mozart. In...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013

BRITTEN Peter Grimes

Even a decade ago a truly modern production of a British opera by a Brit team and with many Brits...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

BELLINI Norma

The impossible masterpieces of the 19th century supposedly have no challenges that can’t be solved by a hard look at...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2013

RICHAFORT Requiem

It is heartening that the King’s Singers should devote themselves to a work as comparatively obscure as Jean Richafort’s Requiem....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2013

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