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SPONTINI La Fuga in Maschera

The first 25 years of Gaspare Spontini’s life, before he moved to Paris, are pretty poorly documented but this new...

Reviewed in issue 10/2014

RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie

Rameau...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2014

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

It seems ironic to be sitting down to watch an ambulatory opera production from the comfort of one’s armchair. The...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

MERCADANTE I Briganti

Mercadante seems to have been born to disappoint. Henry Chorley said as much at the time of the 1836 Paris...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2014

DONIZETTI L'Elisir D'Amore

There have already been two other DVDs of L’elisir d’amore with Rolando Villazón in the cast but this is the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

CILEA L'Arlesiana

Francesco Cilea’s L’arlesiana – based on the play, Alphonse Daudet’s L’arlésienne, for which Bizet provided his famous incidental music –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2014

SCHUMANN Kinderszenen. Abegg Variations

For her eighth Naïve CD Lise de la Salle turns to Schumann, ranging from Kinderszenen (most touching of childhood visions...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

CRANE Chamber Works 1992 - 2009

It’s 4.30 in the morning and you sit in an airport lounge feeling dazed and displaced, reflecting on the fact...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

My Beloved's Voice

Jesus College, Cambridge, has ‘choirs’ rather than a choir: the all-male Chapel Choir with its boy trebles, the mixed College...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014

Fermate Il Passo: Tracing The Origins Of Opera

It was a mark of good breeding for the Renaissance gentleman to accompany himself on a string instrument. Nowadays, the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2014

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