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VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)

Joan of Arc haunts the opera repertoire – an ideal opera heroine who inspired composers from Verdi to Tchaikovsky to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2024

RIHM Jacob Lenz (Ollu)

The special appeal to 20th-century opera composers of early 19th-century texts by Georg Büchner was famously established by Alban Berg,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2024

GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide (Chauvin)

The opening salvo in Gluck’s conquest of Paris, Iphigénie en Aulide scored a triumph on its premiere in April 1774...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2024

DONIZETTI Il Diluvio Universale (Frizza)

Biblical flooding is as old as the ark, but there are contemporary resonances to the story of Noah. During recent...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2024

CACCINI 'Il Concerto Caccini'

Giulio Caccini was at the epicentre of Florentine musical innovations: extravagant intermedi between the acts of plays produced to celebrate...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

CAGE; DOWLAND 'All We Get is Life'

You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

WALTON 'The Complete Songbook'

In the mid-1950s a Cambridge undergraduate asked his professor why William Walton had never produced a successor to the great...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024

STRADELLA Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

Alessandro Stradella’s life reads like a modern-day novel by Donna Leon, since his brief biography includes fleeing from matchmaking troubles...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

SCHÜTZ Weihnachtshistorie (Meunier. Wilson)

Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie was probably first performed on Christmas Day 1660 at the Dresden court chapel, but when it was published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

SCHNITTKE; VEDEL; BORTNIANSKY Choir Concertos

Readers may have attended a memorable account of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir at London’s Union Chapel in 1989, the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2024

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