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MORAVEC Sanctuary Road

The subject of Paul Moravec’s oratorio Sanctuary Road is William Still (1821-1902), one of the main activists running the Underground...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

LENTZ Ending(s)

There’s no need to pigeonhole Daniel Lentz’s compositional aesthetic. He has traversed an array of styles throughout his productive career,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2020

Brahms in Transcription (Uriel Tsachor)

During December 1914 and January 1915 Max Reger transcribed five Brahms symphonic slow movements for solo piano, which he deemed...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Tomás Cotik)

On this two-disc set of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, Tomás Cotik’s deeply analytical playing adds to an exhilarating display...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2020

Peter Nekoranec: French Arias

Already the winner of multiple prizes, as well as a member of Oper Stuttgart’s ensemble, the 26-year-old Czech tenor Petr...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020

Chantal Santon Jeffery: Brillez, astres nouveaux!

The conductor György Vashegyi and the soprano Chantal Santon-Jeffery are no strangers to Rameau. They appear together on Naïs (Glossa,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2020

VERDI "Traviata - Vous méritez un avenir meilleur"

La traviata has surely been subjected to as many directorial rethinkings as any opera in the repertoire, with Peter Konwitschny’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020

THOMAS Hamlet (Langrée)

Staged at the Opéra-Comique to mark the 150th anniversary of its premiere in the slightly grander setting of the Opéra,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

ROSSINI Zelmira (Gelmetti)

There is a sense in which Zelmira, the last of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, premiered in February 1822, is an elegantly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2020

PAER Agnese (Fasolis)

Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) is best known nowadays as the composer of Leonora (1804), based on the same subject as Fidelio,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

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