Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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SULLIVAN Haddon Hall FORD Mr Jericho (Andrews)
Dutton is spoiling us. Not content to give us the first fully professional recording of Sullivan and Grundy’s ‘original light...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
RESPIGHI La bella dormente nel bosco (Renzetti)
Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty began life in 1922 as a small-scale piece, commissioned by the puppeteer Vittorio Podresca for performance at...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
LEMOYNE Phèdre (Vashegyi)
The choice of French operas in the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s ‘Book+CD Series’ is wonderfully unpredictable. After Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla, praised...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2020
GASSMANN Opera Arias (Ania Vegry)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) lists 21 operas by Florian Leopold Gassmann but most readers would be hard-pressed...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
Anna Prohaska: Paradise Lost
As one might expect from its Miltonic title, Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake’s ‘Paradise Lost’ takes the Biblical narrative of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
Véronique Gens: Nuits
A co-production between Alpha and Palazzetto Bru Zane, Véronique Gens’s ‘Nuits’ is basically a recital of mélodies for soprano and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
Natalya Romaniw: Arion - Voyage of a Slavic Soul
There are few things more satisfying for a critic than watching a promising young singer blossom into a major artist....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
ZELENKA Missa 1724 (Luks)
This imaginary Mass is constructed from motley liturgical pieces created for various unknown occasions during the first half of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020
VENABLES Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
I’m ashamed to report that this is my first encounter with the music of Ian Venables and it immediately set...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
THWAITES From Five Continents - Choral music and songs
If the name Penelope Thwaites is familiar it’s probably as a pianist. Australian-born, London-based Thwaites has recorded extensively and is...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2020
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Review - William Christie: The Complete Erato Recordings
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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