Review - David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition – The Complete Columbia & HMV Recordings
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)
Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)
Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)
It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024
PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)
This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)
The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)
Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)
This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)
Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Vashegyi)
Leclair’s only commission from the Paris Opéra was a box-office flop, never revived on the public stage until modern times....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
GAZZANIGA L'isola d'Alcina (Ehrhardt)
If you have already heard of Giuseppe Gazzaniga it is probably because his ‘Don Giovanni’ middle act in Il capriccio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
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Debussy in Context (Edited by Simon Trezise) | Book Review
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Replay: The bel canto violin of Alfredo Campoli, plus Madeleine de Valmalète, Monique Haas, Emanuel Feuermann & Alfred Dubois
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Box-set Round-up: November 2024 (Prêtre, Celibidache, Jansons)
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Review - Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (by Kate Kennedy) | Book Review
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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