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Review of GERSHWIN; STRAVINSKY; VARESE Transatlantic

GERSHWIN; STRAVINSKY; VARESE Transatlantic

Here’s the recording premiere of a new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and it’s given in two...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019

Review of FALLA El Sombrero de Tres Picos. El Amor Brujo (Heras-Casado)

FALLA El Sombrero de Tres Picos. El Amor Brujo (Heras-Casado)

El sombrero de tres picos was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at London’s Alhambra Theatre in the summer of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019

Review of PURCELL King Arthur (McCreesh)

PURCELL King Arthur (McCreesh)

The Gabrieli Consort & Players have been developing ideas about King Arthur (or The British Worthy) for nearly a quarter...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019

Review of Preach Sister, Preach

Preach Sister, Preach

Katherine Jolly is a rather good operatic and recital soprano, teacher – variously at St Louis and Indiana Universities and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

Review of Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge

Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge

On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

Review of REALE Children's Palace

REALE Children's Palace

Paul Reale (b1943 in New Jersey) studied at Columbia in the 1960s with Chou Wen chung (with whom he had...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

Review of MEYER Ring Out

MEYER Ring Out

In each of Jessica Meyer’s differently configured works from the last five years, knife-edge anticipation opens on to unexpected, often...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019

Review of KARCHIN Jane Eyre

KARCHIN Jane Eyre

In 2016 at Hunter College, New York, the Center for Contemporary Opera staged the world premiere of Jane Eyre, in...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019

Review of WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks. Stiedry)

WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks. Stiedry)

Reviews of Weber’s follow-up to Der Freischütz tend to begin with the listener, enchanted all over again by the score’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019

Review of Ildar Abdrazakov: Verdi

Ildar Abdrazakov: Verdi

Albums devoted to the bass voice aren’t all that common, fewer yet a bass recital devoted to one composer. The...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019

 

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