Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Solti’s Prom concert of the final act of the Ring was actually the first time he had conducted that part...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015
At the 2014 festival, Glyndebourne’s British-made and -conducted Traviata was generally damned with faint praise for Tom Cairns’s staging, if...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015
While Eugene Onegin is Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera, there’s a fair argument that The Queen of Spades is his best....
Reviewed in issue AW2015
‘Who will save Palmyra?’ the maidens cry in Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira. Two hundred years after the opera’s 1813 prima...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015
Rimsky-Korsakov’s historical epic The Tsar’s Bride is given the Dmitri Tcherniakov treatment in this compelling production from the Berlin Staatsoper....
Reviewed in issue AW2015
This disc represents the fourth in what is an unorthodox discography being compiled by Jonas Kaufmann on Sony Classical. His...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2015
Although this comes from Hamburg, it’s La Belle Hélène and not Die schöne Helena. The director-cum-choreographer Renaud Doucet and his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2015
Christian Gerhaher’s latest album was recorded live in concert in Freiburg earlier this year. Presenting a portrait gallery of Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) was regarded by his Neapolitan contemporaries as a learned composer. His contrapuntal abilities are scattered throughout the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015
We all know that modern opera can be hard work; but Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli’s Experimentum mundi – An Experimental...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2015
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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