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Clear Voices In The Dark

‘There is one work … that reassures me that I have the right to compose’, wrote Francis Poulenc about Figure...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: AW2024

SIMON Four Symphonic Works (Noseda)

I reviewed this recording of Carlos Simon’s Tales: A Folklore Symphony (2021) when Noseda and the NSO released it as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

Exodus: Kaufmann, Rubin, Tal

The diaspora of Jewish composers from Hitler’s Reich was wider and deeper than just to the USA (eg Korngold, Schoenberg,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

POHJOLA String Quartets Nos 5-7 (New Helsinki Quartet)

Seppo Pohjola (b1965) is one of the most undeservedly underexposed composers alive and one whose music, never incidental, is always...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/23

WAGNER Parsifal (Heras-Casado)

While Wagner’s final opera traditionally commands the best from the greatest musicians of any era, the visual presentation of Parsifal...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

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

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