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JS BACH Easter Oratorio

Quibbling with the completeness of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Cantata Pilgrimage is a touch academic, as almost all the sacred...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014

Juan Diego Flórez: L'Amour

This recital from Juan Diego Flórez marks a new departure into different areas of 19th-century French repertoire. But the voice,...

Reviewed in issue 06/2014

Maria Friederike Schöder: Amor

Though her career is still in the emerging stage, with plenty of credits in smaller-city opera houses and major-city early-music...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

WAGNER Parsifal

In some respects this is a traditional Parsifal, with spears, a chalice, a grave for Titurel, a bed for Kundry’s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014

VERDI Macbeth

This Macbeth is the 62nd and final opera recording in English to be supported by Peter Moores – he started...

Reviewed in issue 06/2014

VERDI Don Carlo

This comes from the third of the four consecutive spring seasons that celebrated Karajan’s return to the Vienna State Opera...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014

RAMEAU Castor & Pollux

We’re fortunate to have recordings of both the original 1737 version of Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux (with prologue) and...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014

HINDEMITH Tuttifäntchen

Hindemith’s ‘Christmas story in three scenes’ has long been the Cinderella among his stage works, especially on disc. Although CPO...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

F DAVID Lalla Roukh

Lalla Roukh (1862) was the fifth of the seven operas of Félicien David, a French contemporary of Mendelssohn, born in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2014

BERNSTEIN West Side Story

Arriving just a little too late for inclusion in my comparative survey of West Side Story recordings for BBC Radio...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2014

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