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PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Chailly)

The premiere of Madama Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, in 1904 was famously one of operatic history’s great flops. So...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2019

VIVALDI Il Giustino (Dantone)

First performed in Rome in 1724, Il Giustino is among the most beautiful and cogent of Vivaldi’s operas. Using a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019

OFFENBACH Colorature: Jodie Devos

There’s no getting away from the fact that an entire album of wall-to-wall Offenbachian coloratura, a festival of the chanteuse...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante (Gugnin; Giltburg)

Today, when Liszt’s 12 Études d’exécution transcendante seem almost a part of the landscape, with a couple of new recordings...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019

HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

There’s a strange feeling of something like alienation or distance at the outset of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Haydn recital. Perhaps it’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

Tasmin Little plays C Schumann, Beach and Smyth

For a neglected Romantic violin sonata, being recorded by Tasmin Little and John Lenehan must feel like going to heaven....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Mitsuko Uchida)

Mitsuko Uchida’s previous recording of the Beethoven piano concertos, with Kurt Sanderling and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Philips, 5/96,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Giuliano Carmignola)

Were I to append a subtitle to this memorable album it would be ‘the art of the bow’, the reason...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH; KABALEVSKY; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas (Isserlis)

‘Olli and I find it quite masterly – and addictive’, Steven Isserlis writes in a booklet note on Kabalevsky’s Cello...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2019

LUTOSŁAWSKI; DUTILLEUX Cello Concertos (Moser)

Few of the concertante works premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich enjoy repertoire status. Among them, the concertos by Lutosławski and Dutilleux...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019

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