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PURCELL The Fairy Queen (McCreesh)

The dramatic function of Purcell’s music within Thomas Betterton’s extravagant adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not as tenuous...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020

OFFENBACH Les contes d’Hoffmann (Rizzi)

Hoffmann is a contemporary artist with stubble and a man-bun. A photographer, perhaps – screen prints and collages of his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2020

MORLACCHI Tebaldo e Isolina (Fogliani)

Francesco Morlacchi doesn’t exactly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his contemporary, Gioachino Rossini. Both composed a Barbiere di Siviglia – Morlaccchi’s actually...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020

LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Galli)

It might seem strange that, six months after releasing a Cavalleria rusticana from Florence’s Maggio Musicale (10/19), Dynamic should be...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020

GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Robertson)

As a souvenir of a great night in the theatre this attractively designed own-label Metropolitan Opera release merits a warm...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2020

HANDEL Music for the Carmelite Vespers

This problematically titled album explores numerous composers who participated in the annual feast of the Madonna del Carmine (July 16)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020

Les plaisirs du Louvre

The pleasures here are not concerned with the pictures and sculpture of the present-day museum but with musical activity in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020

STRADELLA San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista was composed in 1675 for performance in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome. Although...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2020

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte (Roderick Williams)

While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020

RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

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