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CAMERON-WOLFE Passionate Geometries

Richard Cameron-Wolfe is probably best known for his micro-operas – powerful pocket-size, single-movement pieces for solo, duet or small ensemble...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

BATES; BRESNICK Ways You Went

The two affecting works on The Crossing’s new album find the composers making observations from different perspectives. Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2024

Roberto Alagna: 60

What do you give a tenor celebrating his 60th birthday? If you’re Roberto Alagna, you naturally indulge yourself in a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

WOOLF Jacqueline (Marnie Breckenridge)

Jacqueline du Pré – and her many posthumous admirers – need to be rescued from her legend. The 1998 film...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024

Der Stein der Weisen, oder Die Zauberinsel

Emanuel Schikaneder’s company at Vienna’s suburban Theater auf der Wieden staged several new fairy-tale Singspiels. Exactly one year before The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2024

MARTINŮ The Greek Passion (Pascal)

Reviewing the last recording of Martinů’s The Greek Passion to feature in the pages of Gramophone – live from Graz...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

DONIZETTI L’elisir d’amore (Quatrini)

What a joyous night has been captured here – a dual harvest of first fruit and vintage wine. Nadine Sierra...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2024

BENJAMIN Picture a Day Like This (Benjamin)

The impossible quest has been attracting storytellers since Orpheus. Picture a Day Like This, the fourth opera by George Benjamin...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

Traumglück: Songs by Pejačević, Viardot, Faure & R Strauss (Mandy Fredrich)

Is it any accident that the well-established German soprano Mandy Fredrich has been heard mainly on opera DVDs, well ahead...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024

Claire Booth, Ensemble 360: Pierrot Portraits

Many a major musical institution is largely ignoring the Schoenberg anniversary this year, so thank heavens for artists like Claire...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

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