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RAVEL L’Heure espagnole. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

This is a companion to the CD of L’enfant et les sortilèges (12/15), recorded during the same week in January...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016

ORFF Gisei. WEINGARTNER Die Dorfschule

Though released separately, these two one-act rarities formed a double-bill in concert performances at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper in 2012, and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016

HONEGGER/ IBERT L’Aiglon

Co-written by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert, L’Aiglon was first performed in Monte Carlo in March 1937. An adaptation of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016

DONIZETTI Le Duc d’Albe

Seasoned Donizettians will probably need a word of clarification when it comes this latest Opera Rara release; the less fully...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

Each of the 13 instrumentalists in this performance is listed separately in the booklet with a full-page photo and accompanying...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016

BERTONI Orfeo Ed Euridice

Ferdinando Bertoni knew that he was tempting fate composing Orfeo ed Euridice, to the Calzabigi libretto famously set by Gluck...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016

BALFE Satanella

Operatic weddings tend to be eventful. Still, pity Count Rupert, hero of Balfe’s 1858 opera Satanella. Not only is his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

Viri Galilaei

Bucking the trend of their recent Delphian discs, this latest offering from the Merton College Choir abandons a thematic programme...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2016

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