Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
I would like to have seen on DVD the Dutch company’s 50th-anniversary production of no fewer than four performances from...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2018
Ricciardo e Zoraide was written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1818, midway through Rossini’s seven-year residency in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2018
Puccini’s wartime attempt to emulate the success of Lehár has always been the dark sheep of his output. But La...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018
Nicola Porpora was long famous by association rather than through his own music. In the early 1750s he was mentor...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018
Three Way is a trio of one-act operas by composer Robert Paterson and librettist David Cote. In The Companion, a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018
Monteverdi would hardly have returned to the composition of works for the theatre at such an advanced age had it...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 04/2018
What most strikes one about Marais’s Sémélé is the professional conception of this masterpiece of tragédie lyrique. Marais and his...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2018
In his booklet note, Carlo Ipata advises that this is only ‘one of the many possible’ portraits of Francesco Gasparini....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2018
Bruce Levingston’s annual solo CD releases follow a pattern consisting of a poetic title and a programme interweaving old and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018
This is an engaging – and engagingly played – programme of mostly unfamiliar music for wind quintet. The New Brunswick-based...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2018
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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