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VERDI 'Noble Renegades: Scenes and Arias'
Noble renegades? Here, they’re often simply loud. Charles Castronovo – featured on some 25 recordings and DVDs over the 20...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024
VERDI Aida (Pappano)
Robert Carsen’s Covent Garden staging of Aida, filmed during its opening run in October 2022, essentially dispenses with Egypt and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2024
SCHMIDT Fredigundis (Märzendorfer)
Franz Schmidt’s Fredigundis remains best known for having been an abject failure, its 1922 premiere in Berlin followed by three...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2024
PENDERECKI Paradise Lost (Janiak)
Penderecki’s Paradise Lost, based on the epic poem by Milton, was commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024
MOZART Don Giovanni (Jarry)
Don Giovanni has become such a focus for directorial intervention of late that playing the work straight and in period...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2024
BERNASCONI L'Huomo (Oberlinger)
Andrea Bernasconi was maestro di coro at Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà (1744 53) until he was recruited by Elector Maximilian...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024
Susan Bullock: Songs My Father Taught Me
The gender-switch in this common title is significant. The homey passing-on tradition, suggested by the many ‘Songs My Mother Taught...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024
The Madrigal Reimagined
It didn’t take long for the madrigal to become a vehicle for all manner of experimentation – reworkings of texts...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2024
Bach's Roots. Early Influences on the Young Master
Investigations on record of Bach’s immediate central-German precursors have often relied on content from composers actually related to him, especially...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
Donna Barbara - Songs of Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi accompanied herself on the lute at various Venetian academies, so there is something to be said for present-day...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024
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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