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STEFANI The Supposed Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders

The Supposed Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders (Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale) was first performed Warsaw in 1794. Its...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020

ROSSINI Ricciardo e Zoraide (Sagripanti)

The undoubted draw of the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival’s 2018 bicentenary revival of Ricciardo e Zoraide, the three-hour mock-heroic epic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2020

LULLY Isis (Rousset)

Atys, the fourth tragédie en musique that Lully composed to a libretto by Philippe Quinault, was dubbed ‘the king’s opera’....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2020

GOMES Lo schiavo (Neschling)

Born in Brazil, Antônio Carlos Gomes was a breakthrough composer – the first non-European to score an operatic success in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020

GLUCK Orphée et Eurydice (Pichon. Bicket)

Opera directors today seem to have difficulty in coping with Gluck’s retelling of the Orpheus legend, where – in both...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2020

Song's First Cycle: Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Weber

Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau explore the early history of the song-cycle in this thoughtful recital, which flanks Beethoven’s An...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020

Remember me, my dear

Once heard, never forgotten, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, Garbarek the Blakean serpent weaving among the angels....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

Nowell synge we bothe al and som: A Feast of Christmas Music in Medieval England

It seems extraordinary that this should be Gothic Voices’ first Christmas-themed album; nevertheless, it has been worth the wait to...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020

New England Choirworks

A casual listener tuning into a selection of today’s contemporary choral music may easily be led to believe that only...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020

From Darkness into Light

A tale of two Florentine manuscripts copied by the scribe Fra Antonio Moro leads the intrepid musicologist Laurie Stras to...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020

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