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Boyd Meets Girl: Songs of Love & Despair

The intimate character of Boyd Meets Girl’s new album is apparent right from the outset of the first track, their...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

TEIRSTEIN 'Restless Nation'

Andy Teirstein (b1957) composed his string quartet Restless Nation (2010, rev 2020) after a sabbatical year during which, with his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

SOPER The Understanding of All Things

When the line ‘Here is a central source of musical emotion’ sounds like poetry, you’ve fallen under the spell of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2022

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D850 & D960 (Anne-Marie McDermott)

In the opening measures of the D major Sonata, D850, Anne-Marie McDermott throws down the proverbial gauntlet with a power...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022

Confluence – Balkan Dances & Tango nuevo

The idea of bringing together Eastern European folk dances and tango nuevo is a sound one. Astor Piazzolla, tango nuevo’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

La captive du sérail

The 18th century saw a fashion for operas on oriental subjects, often concerning a European woman being rescued by her...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2022

Benjamin Bernheim: Boulevard des Italiens

Paris’s beautiful Opéra-Comique is just a 10-minute stroll from the equally opulent Palais Garnier via the Boulevard des Italiens and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2022

ROUSSEL La Testament de La Tante Caroline (Corlay)

Aunt Caroline is dead, and the three nieces who shunned her during her career as a grande horizontale are suddenly...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022

PUCCINI La bohème (Alapont)

In Irish National Opera’s short history the company has shown bags of vitality and innovation, and a little thing like...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2022

HANDEL Saul (Moulds)

With its unflinching portrayal of the Israelite king’s descent into madness and terrible final lucidity, Saul is arguably both the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2022

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