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DEMSKE Journey for One (after Schubert's Winterreise)

The unwary might assume that Hilary Demske’s latest album is a transcription or reworking of Schubert’s great song-cycle, omitting the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye BARTÓK from 44 Duos for Violin (High Low Duo)

When played on two electric guitars, the Mother Goose suite sounds less like Ravel transcribed than an Ennio Morricone score...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

Véronique Gens: Passion

A couple of years ago, Alpha issued ‘L’opéra des opéras’ (4/19), a new pasticcio made up of airs and other...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021

Anna Netrebko: Amata dalle tenebre

Anna Netrebko’s new recital is about love and emotional darkness, heroines in extremis and confrontations with mortality, which takes her...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021

George Gagnidze: Opera Arias

Audiences in the UK will have had limited opportunities to see George Gagnidze perform. There was a minor role in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021

J STRAUSS II Waldmeister (Salvi)

It’s always nice to put an operetta to an overture. Johann Strauss’s Waldmeister (1895) was a moderate success in its...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021

SAINT-SAËNS La princesse jaune (Hussain)

Premiered at the Opéra-Comique 1872, in a double bill with Bizet’s Djamileh, La princesse jaune was the first of Saint-Saëns’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021

JOMMELLI Il Vologeso (Page)

Il Vologeso was composed towards the end of Jommelli’s time as Ober-Kapellmeister at the court of the Duke of Württemberg....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021

HOFMANNSTHAL Jedermann (Ensemble 013)

The irony would not have been lost on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, inveterate snob and Anglophile, that his Freudian updating of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

GLASS Akhnaten (Kamensek)

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, priests, ceremony, death and … juggling? Is this a Regietheater staging of Aida set in a circus?...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021

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