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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FINZI; BAX; IRELAND Choral Music
The Anglican choral tradition is shaped and defined as much by its buildings as by its choirs. Whether it’s St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017
JS BACH Cantatas BWV 12, 106, 150 &131
Expectations were understandably high at the prospect of Vox Luminis graduating into the sphere of the young Bach cutting his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2017
CPE BACH Der Frühling
The ever-inquisitive Café Zimmermann present a cross-section of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s least-known vocal and instrumental chamber music that conveys...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2017
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Opera galas are strange beasts, but this one from Baden Baden in 2016 (the booklet doesn’t give us the exact...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
VERDI La traviata
Rolando Villazón sings Alfredo, opposite Anna Netrebko, in what is probably one of the finest available versions of La traviata...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
SALIERI La scuola de' gelosi
La scuola de’ gelosi was originally produced in Venice during the 1778/79 carnival. Haydn organised performances at Eszterháza (1780 81),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2017
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut
Puccini dismissed concerns about following a hit version of the Abbé Prévost’s Manon with his own adaptation: ‘Massenet feels it...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2017
MASCAGNI Guglielmo Ratcliff
Wexford Festival Opera is catnip for those seeking out rare repertory. It specialises in digging up long-forgotten relics and has...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel
The Vienna State Opera performed Hänsel und Gretel a few months after the end of the Second World War at...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2017
HOLST At the Boar's Head
Both of these one-act operas remain on the fringes of the repertoire, so any new performance or recording is worthy...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2017
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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