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RUO A Dust in Time

It begins with cello and viola answering one another in slow, sombre gestures. Two violins join the conversation, which builds...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2021

JS BACH Inventions, Sinfonias, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (Paulina Zamora)

Paulina Zamora certainly has Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias under her fingers, and she plays clearly and cleanly at all times....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021

ROSNER The Chronicle of Nine: The Tragedy of Queen Jane

Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) was admirably prolific for a composer whose music was mostly neglected during his lifetime. His output includes...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2021

RAMEAU Platée (Christie)

Rameau’s Platée was described in its time as a ballet bouffon, an example of the kind of ambiguous, seemingly ad...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2021

MASSENET Thaïs (Hussain)

Despite its luscious music, Massenet’s Thaïs doesn’t get many stagings, probably because directors have a hard time taking the plot...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler (de Billy)

I vividly recall the first time I heard the great (albeit brief) Alleluia Duet at the close of Tableau 6...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

HANDEL Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (La Lira di Orfeo)

This recording of a staged production at Piacenza in October 2020 claims to be a ‘reconstruction and critical edition’ of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021

DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Dumoussaud)

For a quintessentially French opera, there are surprisingly few recordings of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a French orchestra. There...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

Julien Van Mellaerts: Songs of Travel and Home

This disc would be notable if only because it’s the debut recital recording of the much-awarded and much-travelled New Zealand-born...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021

Shall We Gather: American Art Songs

The surprise with this vocal recital is that there aren’t more like it. The selected programme is prompted by pandemic-era...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021

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