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BONONCINI Polifemo (Oberlinger)

A temporary reduction of music-making at the Vienna court during the War of the Spanish Succession prompted a group of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020

ARNOLD The Dancing Master (Andrews)

Here’s a tonic for a melancholy year: a one-act comic opera by Malcolm Arnold, unstaged in the composer’s lifetime and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020

Sturm und Drang Vol 2: Haydn, Gluck, Vanhal

Ian Page and The Mozartists’ second dip into the Classical-era repertoire subset called Sturm und Drang alights on the sine...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

Rolando Villazón: Serenata Latina

I find it a little odd that Rolando Villazón brings so much of the opera house with him to this...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2020

SCHUMANN Stille Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

Episodic ballads were hardly natural territory for Schumann, supreme master of the lyric epigram. Songs like ‘Belsatzar’ and the sprawling,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Requiem (Helgath. Arman)

As the trend for recompleting Mozart’s Requiem approaches its semicentenary, two new versions appear, each tackling the revered fragment in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Betulia liberata (Rousset)

The story from the Apocrypha of the Israelite widow Judith’s murder of the Assyrian king Holofernes – repulsive or uplifting,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

MAHLER Lieder (Christiane Karg)

For her first solo album for Harmonia Mundi, German soprano Christiane Karg turns to Mahler, joined at the piano by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2020

JOSQUIN Masses (Phillips)

This ends a hugely enjoyable project begun in 1986, not originally envisaged as a complete cycle of Josquin’s Masses but...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2020

HAYDN The Creation (Antonini)

Haydn’s joyous celebration of an idyllic, prelapsarian world seems particularly poignant in an age when our guardianship of the planet...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

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