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OFFENBACH La Vie Parisienne (Dumas)

La vie parisienne is a mischief-making vaudeville commissioned from Offenbach and his two famously freewheeling, free-spirited librettists, Henri Meilhac and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2025

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Wahlberg)

With a nod to René Jacobs’s 2009 recording (Harmonia Mundi, A/10), Martin Wåhlberg conceives Mozart’s ‘comedy with machines’ as a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2025

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen: Uncharted

A countertenor singing Korngold lieder? In theory, no repertoire is off limits to any voice type – as long as...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2025

WOOD Songs for Voice and Piano

Best known for his lasting contribution to Anglican church music, Armagh-born Charles Wood (1866-1926) was among the initial intake of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2025

WEINBERG Complete Songs for Bass Voice (Tomasz Raff)

Weinberg’s songs comprise some 30 of his 154 opuses, but they have lagged seriously behind in terms of recordings. Tomasz...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2025

Schubert's Four Seasons (Carolyn Sampson)

By now we know well what to expect from each new album from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton: intelligent, impeccably...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2025

RAVEL The Complete Songs

Malcolm Martineau marks this year’s Ravel anniversary with a set of the complete songs, a sequel, in effect, to his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2025

MENDELSSOHN Sacred Choral Works

Of all the facets of Mendelssohn’s large and varied output, it would appear to be the choral music that has...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2025

LISZT Via Crucis. Solo Piano Works (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Via Crucis is traditionally catalogued as a choral work. But although the default edition calls for voices with organ or...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2025

KNAIFEL Chapter Eight

The recent death of Alexander Knaifel may bring reappraisal of one who had little exposure in the UK. Gennady Rozhdestvensky...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

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