Review - Michi X3 S2
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
There’s something grimly irresistible about Zemlinsky’s short and sharp Eine florentinische Tragödie (premiered in 1917). Based on Oscar Wilde’s fragmentary...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024
This is the best recording we have yet had of Ermione, Rossini’s Classically inspired masterwork derived from Racine’s Andromaque, the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024
Following her examination of music associated with Pauline Viardot (11/22), Marina Viotti gives us Mozart arias, operatic and sacred, for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
Le carnaval du Parnasse (1749) was so popular that it notched up 35 performances in two months, and audiences at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
This is the second DVD of Rusalka in three years to feature Asmik Grigorian in the title-role, and in many...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
Hard on the heels of the Bergamo Festival’s memorable 2022 bicentenary realisation of Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina (4/24), we have...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024
As Martin Anderson, founder of Toccata Classics, comments in his introductory note, Brian’s one-time reputation as ‘the most prolific symphonist...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
If you’re in search of an album of choral music that embraces the rich diversity and encyclopaedic range of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
This sounds like an enjoyable concert to have attended. Two of today’s brightest soprano stars – both friends and rivals...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024
Reminiscent of the cross-cultural crossover projects of L’Arpeggiata and Hespèrion XXI, this imaginative, deliciously sombre recording brings together 17th-century English...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
Rob Cowan revisits collections devoted to Mozart, Dukas, the Couperins and more
The latest amplifier technology is making possible truly tiny hi-fi components without compromising...
This book deserves to be snapped up by any lover of British music – and its renaissance that Foreman...
A rewarding read and an ambitious, serious and open-minded addition to the Wagner literature
America’s greatest pre-war baritone commemorated by Marston
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