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OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffman (Nagano)
What do you want from Les contes d’Hoffmann? Enchantment or insight? Delirious high-Romantic fantasy or probing Jungian psychodrama? False dichotomies,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Idomeneo (Netopil)
Not since Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni (BelAir, A/13) have I seen such a wrong-headed account of a Mozart...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022
Emőke Baráth: Dualità - Handel Opera Arias
‘Her person was coarse and masculine.’ ‘She was short and squat, with a doughy cross face.’ ‘She had so little...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
CASABLANCAS L'Enigma Di Lea (Pons)
The first opera to be premiered at Barcelona’s Liceu for over a decade, Benet Casablancas’s L’enigma di Lea apparently aroused...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
James Gilchrist: One Hundred Years of British Song vol 3
The opening moments of this collection land you in a collision of disparate stimuli. The opening bars of the first...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque
Time and again, one’s ears search for something subversive, some sort of coded protest in the music of these often-forgotten...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022
Ice Land: The Eternal Music
Graham Ross isn’t the first musician to have got Iceland under his skin – a process that, for many of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
Barbara Hannigan: Dance with Me
The idea for this recording took shape following a concert the Ludwig Orchestra gave in Birmingham when Peppie Wiersma, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022
Cachua Serranita
The Jesuit mission to Latin America during the 17th and 18th centuries left a spiritual legacy, but also a musical...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2022
TELEMANN Complete Cantatas Vol 1
To CPO’s already generous Telemann catalogue we can now add this first volume in what will be the first complete...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022
SUCKLING The Tuning
Earlier releases of Martin Suckling – his song-cycle Candlebird (London Sinfonietta, 2/13) or the NMC ‘portrait’ centred on his Piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
STRAUSS Five Songs. Salome (Jessye Norman)
The central work in this Strauss programme, captured live at the Royal Festival Hall in good sound in 1986, is...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2022
RACHMANINOV Dissonance (Asmik Grigorian)
After triumphs on stage in Salzburg (Salome) and Madrid (Rusalka) that have already made it to DVD and Blu ray,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2022
PURCELL Odes & Welcome Songs
The British monarchy is enjoying an unexpected revival – on disc, at least. Scarcely a year after The King’s Consort’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2022
LALANDE Grands Motets. Dies Irae. Miserere & Veni Creator
Michel-Richard de Lalande spent his life in the service of the royal court at Versailles, in the course of which...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022
GESUALDO Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday (The Gesualdo Six)
Here The Gesualdo Six tackle two of Renaissance polyphony’s warhorses, an imaginative pairing that also welcomes two short works by...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2022
BRUHNS Cantatas and Organ Works, Vol. 1
Among that group of unfortunate composers who met an early death, Nicolaus Bruhns (1665 97) is sometimes unfairly overlooked. Although...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2022
HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Leon McCawley)
This is the first of Leon McCawley’s Haydn volumes to come my way, though by no means the first of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong
The idea of a musical refrain (a recurring theme, chorus or ‘hook’) unifies the works on this album, making for...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Méditation. Les quatre saisons du luth (Simone Vallerotonda)
Italian lutenist Simone Vallerotonda, who admits philosophy ‘has been his passion and salvation’, shares with fellow gut-pluckers such as Lukas...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022
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