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Michael Spyres: Espoir

With these two discs Opera Rara moves away from its predominantly Italian repertoire into territory occupied by the Palazzetto Bru...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2017

VERDI Don Carlo. Il Trovatore (Daniel Oren)

These DVDs (available also on Blu-ray and audio-only CD) give us two comparable Verdi productions from two very different Italian...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2017

STRAUSS Elektra. Salome (Solti)

Products of the heyday of the early stereo era, Solti’s recordings of Strauss’s two ‘stage tone poems’, as Norman Del...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2017

ROSSINI William Tell (Pappano)

It was the gratuitous rape of a young woman by officers answerable to their Austrian Gauleiter during the Act 3 Pas...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2017

LEHÁR The Count of Luxemburg

'The trifle [Der Schmarrn] is ready, and you’ve only yourselves to blame if it flops.’ Lehár seems to have been positively...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

FACCIO Hamlet

All the world’s a stage. It’s from the wrong play, but the Melancholy Jaques’s extended metaphor in As You Like...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

MOZART Il sogno di Scipione

Like Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, ‘Scipio’s Dream’ is an azione teatrale. The circumstances of the work’s composition and performance are not...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2017

DAVID Portraits Vol 4

Félicien David’s music has edged its way back to the fringes of the repertory of late, and Palazzetto Bru Zane’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation

This year has seen several fine recordings celebrating the quincentenary of the founding act of the Reformation but this is comfortably the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Vol 5

This impressive recording is the fifth of a series devoted to the music of the Peterhouse Partbooks, so called because, though...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

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