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LEHÁR Schön ist die Welt (Burkert)

‘The world is beautiful, when luck brings you a fairy tale …’ Lehár’s post-Merry Widow career is studded with fascinating...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

Welcome Joy: A Celebration of Women’s Voices

The chemistry of mysticism, a partiality for orientalism and a career teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School for over 30...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2024

Bruno de Sa: Mille affetti

Just when you thought falsettists couldn’t get any higher, along comes Bruno de Sá, pinging out high Cs and Ds...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

Benjamin Bernheim - Douce France: Melodies & Chansons

Here’s a very grown-up pleasure: Benjamin Bernheim and Carrie-Ann Matheson have put together a recital of French-language songs that are...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

Huw Montague Rendall: Contemplation

Thirty-year-old British baritone Huw Montague Rendall, the son of mezzo Diana Montague and tenor David Rendall, has been causing something...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2024

Royal Throne of Kings: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare

Around half of this latest offering from those enterprising folk at Albion Records is given over to incidental music from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

RIDDERSTOLPE Untold Tales

Not even the Swedish duo of Kristina Hammarström and Anna Paradiso had heard of Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793-1878) until the latter...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2024

PUCCINI Messa di Gloria. Preludio sinfonico. Crisantemi (Repušić)

There hasn’t exactly been a deluge of new CD releases to mark the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death, so a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024

MENDELSSOHN Elijah (Pappano)

By the time he relinquished his position as chief at Covent Garden earlier this year, Antonio Pappano had established himself...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

HANDEL Il Messia (1768 Florence version)

Here’s a surprise, and an enjoyable one: a version of Messiah in Italian translation that came to light as recently...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2024

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