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Review of MOZART Don Giovanni (Domingo)

MOZART Don Giovanni (Domingo)

The USP of this enjoyable production is that it comes from the Estates Theatre in Prague, the very building in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2018

Review of HANDEL Arminio (Petrou)

HANDEL Arminio (Petrou)

Max Emanuel Cencic performs the dual role of both stage director and title-hero for this production, filmed at the Karlsruhe...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018

Review of DONIZETTI Il borgomastro di Saardam (Brignoli)

DONIZETTI Il borgomastro di Saardam (Brignoli)

Il borgomastro di Saardam – ‘The Mayor of Saardam’ – is a melodramma giocoso, first performed in Naples in August...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2018

Review of CACCINI La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina

CACCINI La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina

Francesca Caccini, daughter of the tempestuous professional singer Giulio, a composer best known for his landmark song collection Le nuove...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2018

Review of Sibylla

Sibylla

The Prophetiae Sibyllarum have had several outings on disc, mostly with mixed, medium-sized choirs (Daedalus, Vocalconsort Berlin, Brabant Ensemble). This...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

Review of A Rose Magnificat

A Rose Magnificat

The soprano solo that opens Leighton’s Of a rose is all my song flowers out of frosty silence, gradually pushing...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

Review of Perpetual Night: 17th Century Ayres and Songs

Perpetual Night: 17th Century Ayres and Songs

The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018

Review of O lux beata Trinitas

O lux beata Trinitas

And so Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, reach the end of their musical pilgrimage through the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018

Review of Sandrine Piau: Chimère

Sandrine Piau: Chimère

As Sandrine Piau explains in a brief booklet note, this album completes a leisurely triptych that started with ‘Evocation’ a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018

Review of Cantata: yet can I hear... (Bejun Mehta)

Cantata: yet can I hear... (Bejun Mehta)

The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has one of the best voices in the business. Full, free and with real power...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018

 

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