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Christopher Nichols: Almost All-American - 21st-Century Works for Clarinet

The Clarinettist Christopher Nichols and his musical crew (almost all from the University of Delaware) give affectionate performances of music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2019

MAKAN Dream Lightly

I was rather taken with Keeril Makan’s hour-long sextet Letting Time Circle Through Us (New World, 12/17). Makan’s meditative take...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2019

BATES Mass Transmission

The works by Mason Bates that tend to draw the most attention are his orchestral scores and the 2017 opera...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2019

Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d’amore

Jakub Józef Orliński made his solo debut a year ago with a collection of sacred works (‘Anima sacra’ – Erato,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2019

Benjamin Bernheim

Just a matter of months after the release of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s recording of the 1859 Faust (11/19), Benjamin Bernheim...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Fisch)

Not just a commemoration of a rare local event, this live concert recording – drawn from two performances and, presumably,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2019

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rhorer)

It took a Paris-born theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us the definitive filmed staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2019

MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov (1869 version. Nagano)

Confession time. Although it’s deeply unfashionable to admire Rimsky-Korsakov’s cosmetic surgery on Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, I admit to loving it....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019

HANDEL Rodrigo (Cummings)

Handel the stage composer was not quite the finished article when he composed Rodrigo for Florence in the autumn of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019

GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (1762 Vienna version. Bates)

This is the first version of Gluck’s opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, complete on one CD: not quite penny...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019

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