Review - David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition – The Complete Columbia & HMV Recordings
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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LULLY Atys
Hard on the heels of Armide (10/11) comes this equally splendid DVD of Atys. How the production came about makes...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012
FALVETTI Il Diluvio Universale
Michelangelo Falvetti, maestro di cappella at Messina Cathedral during the 1680s, is almost as obscure a figure as you can...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2012
DEBUSSY Pelléas and Mélisande
ENO 30 years ago. For the company’s first Pelléas, a controversial stage production (Harry Kupfer) decidedly not set in some...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2012
Vittorio Grigolo: Arrivederci
For those who have been on Mars, the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo once sang in both the Sistine Chapel choir...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
WAGNER Tannhäuser
Though often a director of dazzling invention, Robert Carsen takes such a contrary approach to Tannhäuser in this production that,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2012
VIVALDI Orlando Furioso, RV728
Not so much furious as mad: and they don’t come much madder than Orlando in this production by Pierre Audi....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2012
MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea
Monteverdi’s last opera is renowned for two particular features: the principal characters are drawn from history rather than legend, and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2012
MASSENET Werther
It is a shame that this live recording of Werther comes to us as audio only. Although the Royal Opera’s...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
HERMANN Wuthering Heights
The full plot of Emily Brontë’s novel makes those of Russian 19th-century epics read like Noddy. Like Carlisle Floyd, Bernard...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
HARVEY Wagner Dream
Avoiding the more prosaic title, Wagner’s Dream, Jonathan Harvey and his librettist Jean-Claude Carrière identify their true theme: a 21st-century...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2012
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Debussy in Context (Edited by Simon Trezise) | Book Review
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Box-set Round-up: November 2024 (Prêtre, Celibidache, Jansons)
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Replay: The bel canto violin of Alfredo Campoli, plus Madeleine de Valmalète, Monique Haas, Emanuel Feuermann & Alfred Dubois
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Review - Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (by Kate Kennedy) | Book Review
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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