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MASCAGNI Iris (Krieger)

Even for an era of technicoloured orchestration, the opening of Mascagni’s Iris (1898) is a knockout. It’s night, and a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2021

HEISE Drot og marsk

Denmark is awash with homegrown 19th-century operas right now. Just as August Enna’s Kleopatra was being revived at Copenhagen’s old...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2021

William Towers: Handelian Pyrotechnics

Some sort of theme, concept or imaginative angle often yields the most rewarding outcomes for Handel aria recitals. William Towers...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2021

DONIZETTI Lucrezia Borgia (Frizza)

Filmed at the 2019 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Lucrezia Borgia is a compelling if uneven affair, handsomely conducted...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021

BENDA Medea (Bosch)

Two generations before Beethoven set speech against music to such telling effect in the dungeon scenes of Egmont and Fidelio,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2021

BARTÓK Bluebeard's Castle (Mälkki)

Out of the darkness, a voice (Géza Szilvay), a whispered invitation to enter the darkest recesses of Duke Bluebeard’s mind....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

The Trials of Tenducci: A Castrato in Ireland

The life of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci reads like a fictional bodice-ripper. Affairs, assignations, imprisonment and scandal followed the celebrated Italian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2021

Magnificat Vol 2 (Nethsingha)

There is a treasure trove here, of information and reflection as well as music. Rowan Williams, Julian Anderson and Andrew...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2021

Louise Alder: Chère Nuit - French Songs

Here’s a peach of a recital disc, wonderfully programmed. Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton begin with the familiar – Ravel’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021

SCHWEITZER Die Auferstehung Christi. Missa Brevis Cantata

Anton Schweitzer – a few years younger than Haydn and dead a few years before Mozart – was mainly active...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021

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