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BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Pappano)

One of the most eagerly awaited productions of the 2019‑20 season at Covent Garden was this Fidelio, with Antonio Pappano...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

A Room of Mirrors

The mirror – glass of truth or deception, revealing a twin-self or a dark double – is the intriguing theme...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2022

Resurrexi!: Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers

The subtitle is misleading, as the music by Mozart and Michael Haydn here was all composed for Salzburg Cathedral and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022

An Old Belief

What might at first glance seem like a disparate programme of medieval carols, Renaissance lute songs, Romantic motets and 20th-century...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2022

Eastertide Evensong (Nethsingha)

Andrew Nethsingha mentions in the booklet that he has clocked up an estimated 8000 Evensongs in his life. As a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

Anna Prohaska: Celebration of Life in Death

As musical responses to the pandemic go, this is a bold one. While today’s careful, not to say squeamish prevailing...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2022

WILBYE 'Draw On Sweet Night'

It’s four decades since The Consort of Musicke devoted an entire programme to John Wilbye (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 7/82), and the title...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2022

VERDI Requiem (Noseda)

For the first release in its digital-only Verbier Festival Gold series, featuring live recordings from the swanky Swiss festival, DG...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

SCHOECK Elegy Op 36 (Christian Gerhaher)

Othmar Schoeck wrote over 400 songs, and Elegie (1921‑22) is arguably his finest achievement in the genre. Like so many...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

ROSSINI Stabat mater (Gimeno)

Rossini’s Stabat mater is one of the glories of the composer’s output from his long post-retirement phrase. Its composition spanned...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022

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