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BERLIOZ Benvenuto Cellini (Elder)

Terry Gilliam’s production of Benvenuto Cellini was the second of the ex-Python’s shows to open at English National Opera, after...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018

BARTÓK Le chateau de Barbe Bleue POULENC La Voix Humaine (DVD)

This isn’t ‘a unique merging of two one-act operas’ as the packaging breathlessly exclaims. It’s a decent staging of Bartók’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2018

ADAMS Doctor Atomic

Forget Nixon in China: Doctor Atomic is arguably John Adams’s finest operatic achievement to date. Dark, disturbing yet powerfully compelling,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2018

Seven Words from the Cross

The Boston-based Skylark Vocal Ensemble, who made their UK debut this year in an innovative Good Friday concert at Tenebrae’s...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2018

Music in the Listening Place

From the first bars of Daniel Read’s resplendently glorious Windham to the finale, David Dickau’s gently intoxicated If music be...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2018

American Romantics II & III

The Australian-born conductor Reuben Blundell continues to make splendid use of the Edwin A Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2018

NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto (Shifrin)

Because Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto is sparsely scored for two bassoons, two horns, snare drum and string section, the music readily...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018

KEMPER Mythical Spaces

Despite its ungenerous playing time, this is an intriguing disc of electroacoustic music. Steven Kemper (b1981) is Assistant Professor of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (Shelley)

Themes of migration, border crossing and leaving old worlds behind while anticipating new worlds up ahead bind the two seemingly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018

DIAMOND Symphony No 6. Music for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

David Diamond composed at least 12 symphonies, though withdrew an early single-movement essay (1933), replacing it with a different ‘No...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

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