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Placido Domingo: Verdi
At this rate, Plácido Domingo is likely to celebrate his 100th birthday singing the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, seeming...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013
STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos
Ariadne auf Naxos is essentially two one-act operas connected by an impending theatrical train wreck. Two music/theatre troupes – one...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013
PROVENZALE La Stellidaura vendicante
Only two complete operas by Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) survive, and with this being a world premiere recording it is safe...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013
HANDEL Serse
‘One of the worst that Handel ever set to music’, ran a contemporary verdict on the libretto of Serse, whose...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2013
DONIZETTI Caterina Cornaro
The historical Caterina Cornaro was the means by which Venice came to rule the island of Cyprus. She was married...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
CHERUBINI Lodoïska
Lodoïska, performed in Paris in 1791, is sometimes cited as a model for Fidelio. The setting is 17th-century Poland. Count...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
CHARPENTIER David and Jonathas
David et Jonathas seems like a full-scale Lullian opera, with a prologue and five acts, but was devised as a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
FRANCK Violin Sonata. Prelude, Fugue & Transcription
The spirit of Alfred Cortot and, to a lesser extent, Harold Bauer hangs over this most distinguished and enterprising recital....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
Alexandra Silocea: Sound Waves
A distinctive 2011 CD containing Prokofiev’s first five sonatas (7/11) garnered positive attention for the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, whose...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 09/2013
TCHAIKOVSKY Rare Transcriptrions and Paraphrases Vol 2
Anthony Goldstone follows an initial volume of operatic transcriptions with arrangements of music from the ballets, again including a number...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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