Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
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ROSSINI Armida
The tale of Rinaldo the Crusader knight caught in the toils of the sorceress Armida had been popular with composers...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017
MOZART La Clemenza di Tito
By all accounts, Denis Podalydès’s updated production of Mozart’s late opera seria in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, set in a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Sonya Yoncheva: Handel
In her absolute prime at 35, the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has been winning plaudits on both sides of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
HANDEL Theodora
It must be a world record for William Christie to have conducted four different commercial releases of Handel’s late masterpiece...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
CACCINI La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina
Written to celebrate the visit of Archduke Karl of Styria to Florence during the carnival season of 1625, La liberazione...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 04/2017
BRAUNFELS Ulenspiegel
First performed in Stuttgart in 1913, Braunfels’s second opera centres on Till Ulenspiegel (or Eulenspiegel), the rebellious prankster of north...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017
BIZET Les Pêcheurs de Perles
In this performance from the New York Met, a co-production with English National Opera, the setting is not Ceylon in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2017
Great American Sonatas
Aaron Copland’s Piano Sonata doesn’t exactly lack in first-rate recordings, yet there’s certainly room for Nathan Williamson’s commanding interpretation. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
SEABOURNE Steps: An Anthology for Piano. 16 Scenes Before a Crcufixion
The five volumes that comprise Steps marked an unequivocal return to composition for Peter Seabourne (b1960). The first and last...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay: The Guarneri at the top of their game; François in concert; Demus in Dresden
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Pro-Ject Stereo Set E CD: Small System, Big Appeal
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Review - Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa: A Tribute
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Shostakovich at 50: three new box-sets that do the composer justice
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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