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LEHÁR The Count of Luxemburg

'The trifle [Der Schmarrn] is ready, and you’ve only yourselves to blame if it flops.’ Lehár seems to have been positively...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

FACCIO Hamlet

All the world’s a stage. It’s from the wrong play, but the Melancholy Jaques’s extended metaphor in As You Like...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

MOZART Il sogno di Scipione

Like Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, ‘Scipio’s Dream’ is an azione teatrale. The circumstances of the work’s composition and performance are not...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2017

DAVID Portraits Vol 4

Félicien David’s music has edged its way back to the fringes of the repertory of late, and Palazzetto Bru Zane’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation

This year has seen several fine recordings celebrating the quincentenary of the founding act of the Reformation but this is comfortably the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Vol 5

This impressive recording is the fifth of a series devoted to the music of the Peterhouse Partbooks, so called because, though...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

BLOW An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

This release joins a surprisingly small company entirely devoted to works by Purcell’s teacher and friend John Blow (excepting the opera...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2. Études-tableaux Op 33

Boris Giltburg certainly has something fresh to say in Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto, that well-worn, much-loved masterpiece, and in his new Naxos...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Gardiner)

The last instalment in John Eliot Gardiner’s bracing Mendelssohn cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra marks up a significant success....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21

It has been a long, long time since Krystian Zimerman’s last solo recording. Think back to his Gramophone Award-winning Debussy...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

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