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DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony KAY Fantasy Variations

Leopold Stokowski thought so highly of William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony that he conducted the work’s premiere in 1934 with...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020

DAUGHERTY This Land Sings (Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)

The premiere recording of Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Woody Guthrie recalls populist chords in American history when homeless citizens rode...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2020

ZEMLINSKY Der Zwerg (Runnicles)

Oscar Wilde’s late plays and stories, so un-politically correct and obsessed with death, proved rich pickings for composers and librettists...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

WAGNER Die Walküre (Rattle)

All the principals involved in this second instalment of Simon Rattle’s Bavarian Ring in progress have extensive stage experience of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

WAGNER Tannhäuser (Gergiev)

The German regisseur Tobias Kratzer has found an interesting frame story through which to parallel and illustrate the dramatic conflicts...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

MONTÉCLAIR Jephté (Vashegyi)

This latest collaboration between György Vashegyi’s Hungarian musicians and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is another triumph. Despite...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2020

Avery Amereau: Handel Arias

Call me insular, but I’d not previously heard of Florida contralto Avery Amereau. I’m glad I have now. Her burnt...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020

HANDEL Semele (Gardiner)

Semele is a work that deserves more recordings than it has had. What should by rights be considered the greatest...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2020

ALWYN Miss Julie (Oramo)

How many operas have been recorded more often than they’ve been staged? With the arrival of this superb new account...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020

ADAM Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Rouland)

Adolphe Adam is most familiar to audiences today as the composer of Giselle, the quintessential Romantic ballet, but the majority...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2020

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