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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 6

Jonathan Biss’s slowly evolving Beethoven sonata cycle has now reached Vol 6. And the main offering here is the greatest...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

WAGNER Lohengrin

Just as the drying-up of studio recordings (never plentiful) of Wagner’s ‘romantic opera’ seemed to threaten the work with ill-earned...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2017

VERDI Oberto

Verdi’s second opera has fared surprisingly well on record, especially if you include its appearances on DVD. In the audio-only...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

RAVEL L'Enfant et les sortilèges DEBUSSY L'Enfant Prodigue

Not just one but two naughty boys here. Rather than pair Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with L’heure espagnole, Warner...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017

PUCCINI Tosca

Although it was the first to be recorded, this Tosca is the third of Karajan’s Puccini sets on Decca to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

LULLY Persée 1770

The first production of Lully’s Persée (Paris, 1682) took place the same year that Louis XIV moved into his new...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017

JOUBERT Jane Eyre

There’s some disagreement as to whether Jane Eyre is John Joubert’s seventh or eighth opera but, either way, he is...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017

DONIZETTI Olivo e Pasquale

Apart from that operatic charmer L’elisir d’amore, I’ve come to the sad conclusion that Donizetti comedies are just not that...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017

CESTI L'Orontea

Cesti’s L’Orontea, first performed in 1656, was immensely popular in its time. The easy appeal of its adroit manipulation of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 06/2017

BOLDEMANN Black is White – Said the Emperor

How timely that a recording of Laci Boldemann’s first opera, a satire on totalitarianism told through the story of an...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017

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