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RACHMANINOV Monna Vanna. Songs

This is a vast improvement on the only other recording of Rachmaninov’s Monna Vanna, released by Chandos in 1992. A...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

MEYERBEER Vasco de Gama

Vasco de Gama had a difficult birth. Meyerbeer began composing it in 1837, set it aside and returned to it...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014

HANDEL. PORPORA Arias

Analekta puts the Italian aria texts (not including translations) online instead of in the booklet but does print long, irrelevant...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

GRÉTRY William Tell

Poor Grétry. A native of Liège, he was a key figure in the development of opéra comique. In 2013 the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014

GLUCK La Clemenza di Tito

Some 40 years before Mozart turned La clemenza di Tito into what he dubbed a ‘true opera’, Gluck set Metastasio’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014

CALDARA In dolce Amore

The Venetian Antonio Caldara worked at the Imperial court in Vienna from summer 1716 until his death 20 years later....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

ANDRIESSEN La Commedia

This is purgatory. At least that’s where Louis Andriessen’s 2008 ‘film opera’ La Commedia is set. Andriessen and his collaborator,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Concerto for 2 Violins, BWV1043

‘Two x Four’ is the snazzy title for a conceptual programme built around Bach’s Concerto for two violins and the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Per Monsieur Pisendel

Johan Georg Pisendel may not be a household name in our own time but in the 18th century he was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014

WEINBERG Symphony No 21

If Mieczysaw Weinberg (or Moysey Vaynberg, as the Russians knew him) suffered neglect and humiliation during his lifetime, he could...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

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