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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BRITTEN A Midsummer Night's Dream
Even more than in Glyndebourne’s other Britten opera releases, the pluses and minuses of live recording are the most important...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2012
BERG Lulu
Patricia Petibon’s Lulu in Oliver Py and Pierre-André Weitz’s Geneva/Barcelona production is surely as complete and dangerous an assumption as...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012
'Mission' – STEFFANI Opera Arias
Oh my word, what have we here? A fat hardback, stocked with essays on the music, 18th-century diplomacy and the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
To mount Meistersinger at Glyndebourne, even in its new theatre, is both a significant step further than Tristan and an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
VIVALDI L’Oracolo in Messenia
This might seem like yet another unfamiliar Vivaldi opera uncovered but the truth is more complicated. Giacomelli’s setting of Zeno’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
SMETANA The Bartered Bride
‘Girls seem either to want to marry me or kill me.’ Such is the lament of the beleaguered groom Vašek...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
ROSSINI Aureliano in Palmira
With its temples, theatre and magnificent colonnaded street, Palmyra, the ‘Bride of the Desert’, is one of the best-preserved cities...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012
MOZART Don Giovanni
This recording, taken from concert performances in Baden-Baden, is based on the scholarly New Mozart Edition. But it doesn’t follow...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012
HANDEL Giulio Cesare
Laurent Pelly’s production (Paris, 2011) is set imaginatively in the storeroom of a museum of antiquities, which includes famous classical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
HANDEL Alessandro, HWV21
Alessandro (1726) initiated the Royal Academy of Music’s new artistic policy of producing operas designed for a prestigious triumvirate of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
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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