Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)
The archetypal German Romantic opera, where folkish charm collides with sinister supernatural forces, has done well on CD. In the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Phryné (Niquet)
First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1893, Phryné comes immediately after Saint-Saëns’s big stage works of the late 1870s and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
PHIBBS Juliana (Vass)
Vilified and banned though it may have been initially, Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) has more than made up any lost...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffman (Nagano)
What do you want from Les contes d’Hoffmann? Enchantment or insight? Delirious high-Romantic fantasy or probing Jungian psychodrama? False dichotomies,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Idomeneo (Netopil)
Not since Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni (BelAir, A/13) have I seen such a wrong-headed account of a Mozart...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022
Emőke Baráth: Dualità - Handel Opera Arias
‘Her person was coarse and masculine.’ ‘She was short and squat, with a doughy cross face.’ ‘She had so little...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
CASABLANCAS L'Enigma Di Lea (Pons)
The first opera to be premiered at Barcelona’s Liceu for over a decade, Benet Casablancas’s L’enigma di Lea apparently aroused...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
James Gilchrist: One Hundred Years of British Song vol 3
The opening moments of this collection land you in a collision of disparate stimuli. The opening bars of the first...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque
Time and again, one’s ears search for something subversive, some sort of coded protest in the music of these often-forgotten...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ice Land: The Eternal Music
Graham Ross isn’t the first musician to have got Iceland under his skin – a process that, for many of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Box-set Round-up: December 2024 (Poschner, Knappertsbusch, Schaller)
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
Review - Colin Davis in Amsterdam and London
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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