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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LEVINAS La Métamorphose
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s unnerving tale of man transformed into a cockroach, is a gift to a composer as imaginative...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012
GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice
Composed in broad strokes and paced with contemplative majesty, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is an obvious choice for the strong-minded...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012
DONIZETTI Lucrezia Borgia
This was the second opera that Donizetti composed to a libretto based on a drama by Victor Hugo. And he...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
CATEL Sémiramis
If you love the operas of Cherubini and Berlioz – the latter, at least, would not have found that an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012
JS BACH The French Suites
Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
VERDI Simon Boccanegra
Whatever one thinks of Plácido Domingo’s assumption of the baritone title-role of Simon Boccanegra, he has decidedly raised the opera’s...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012
STRAUSS Salome
‘We await a gripping modern Salome on DVD’: that was Mike Ashman’s verdict on the 2007 La Scala production (TDK,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012
STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos
A Karl Böhm Ariadne is not news. There are four predecessor competitors currently still available (a 1969 DG LP set...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012
NEBRA Iphigenia en Tracia
And what, you may well ask, is Iphigenia doing in Thrace? Hoping to intercept Orpheus, before he is torn to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
MOZART The Magic Flute
William Kentridge’s production of Die Zauberflöte was first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2005. Since then it has...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
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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