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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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
HANDEL Il pastor fido, HWV8a
The musical and theatrical extravagances of Handel’s first London opera, Rinaldo, had created a sensation early in 1711. Over a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2012
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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