Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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WOLF-FERRARI Die vier Grobiane (Schirmer)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, the son of a glamorous Venetian mother and a Bavarian artist father, produced several estimable hits during his...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks)
This is the visual side of the CD release I reviewed last November (Capriccio). The control, order and purpose of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2020
WAGNER Die Walküre (Pappano)
The history of performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle at London’s Covent Garden Opera House has been an enigmatic one. Artistic...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2020
PURCELL The Fairy Queen (McCreesh)
The dramatic function of Purcell’s music within Thomas Betterton’s extravagant adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not as tenuous...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020
OFFENBACH Les contes d’Hoffmann (Rizzi)
Hoffmann is a contemporary artist with stubble and a man-bun. A photographer, perhaps – screen prints and collages of his...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2020
MORLACCHI Tebaldo e Isolina (Fogliani)
Francesco Morlacchi doesn’t exactly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his contemporary, Gioachino Rossini. Both composed a Barbiere di Siviglia – Morlaccchi’s actually...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020
LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Galli)
It might seem strange that, six months after releasing a Cavalleria rusticana from Florence’s Maggio Musicale (10/19), Dynamic should be...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Robertson)
As a souvenir of a great night in the theatre this attractively designed own-label Metropolitan Opera release merits a warm...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2020
HANDEL Music for the Carmelite Vespers
This problematically titled album explores numerous composers who participated in the annual feast of the Madonna del Carmine (July 16)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020
Les plaisirs du Louvre
The pleasures here are not concerned with the pictures and sculpture of the present-day museum but with musical activity in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020
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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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Tim Parry explores the legacy of Jorge Bolet’s Decca recordings
Box-set Round-up: March 2025 (Edith Farnadi, Aline van Barentzen, Christine Walevska)
Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer
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