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BEETHOVEN Fidelio
The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016
BEETHOVEN Fidelio
The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016
BALFE Satanella
Operatic weddings tend to be eventful. Still, pity Count Rupert, hero of Balfe’s 1858 opera Satanella. Not only is his...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016
Viri Galilaei
Bucking the trend of their recent Delphian discs, this latest offering from the Merton College Choir abandons a thematic programme...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2016
Conductus: Music & poetry from thirteenth-century France
In the third and last of their issues of 13th-century conductus arising from an AHRC research project at the University...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2016
Amuse-bouche: French Choral Delicacies
Sensuality doesn’t so much ooze as burst in ecstatic, convulsive spasms from I Fagiolini’s latest recording. If it weren’t for...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe. 6 Gedichte und Requiem. 6 Gesänge Op 89
‘An exceptionally fine singer’, noted the much-missed John Steane in his review of Thomas Oliemans’s Schwanengesang (Etcetera, 3/11), while being...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
SCHUBERT Poetisches Tagebuch
Christoph Prégardien is still one of the finest, most thoughtful Lieder singers active today, and this new recital, presenting nine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
NIELSEN Carl Nielsen sung by the Danish National Choirs
The hero of Dacapo’s fourth recent recording of Nielsen’s ensemble songs isn’t so much the composer himself as DR, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
Magdalena Kožená: Monteverdi
It’s been a while since we’ve heard Magdalena Kožená in Baroque repertoire. Her previous recordings of music from the period,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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