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WAGNER Parsifal

What is sung and played is Wagner’s Parsifal. What is staged is something else, based on the view (as the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2014

STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten

This Die Frau differs from some earlier opera recordings from the Mariinsky label in not calling upon the services of...

Reviewed in issue 02/2014

HEGGIE Moby Dick

An operatic Moby-Dick seems impossible. Scenic demands aside, how could Herman Melville’s anecdotal narrative about ships and whales have operatic...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2014

HANDEL Orlando

This recording of Orlando (1733) was made after a mostly Canadian production at the Vancouver Early Music Festival. Alexander Weimann’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014

BRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia. Gloriana

These DVDs illustrate operatic reversals of fortune in complementary ways that seem almost too neat to be coincidental. The Rape...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2014

Splinters: Mariann Marczi

‘Splinters’ couldn’t be more appropriate a name for pianist Mariann Marczi’s collection of Hungarian piano pieces that are generally thorny,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles. Piano Sonata No. 14

Jill Crossland opens with a generally sensitive account of Mozart’s D minor Fantasia, marred only by her impatient ploughing through...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014

Bartlett & Robertson: Selected recordings 1927-1947

Here is that ideal post Christmas present – a box of delights if ever there was one. APR’s two-disc album...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 18

Janina Fialkowska has a palpable vision of how these two different sonatas should work, making them very much her own....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014

RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Valses nobles. Le Tombeau de Couperin

If razor-sharp definition (vif and clarté are central to many French pianists’ musical philosophy) were ultimate virtues in Ravel, then...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

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