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SCHMIDT Fredigundis (Märzendorfer)

Franz Schmidt’s Fredigundis remains best known for having been an abject failure, its 1922 premiere in Berlin followed by three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2024

PENDERECKI Paradise Lost (Janiak)

Penderecki’s Paradise Lost, based on the epic poem by Milton, was commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024

MOZART Don Giovanni (Jarry)

Don Giovanni has become such a focus for directorial intervention of late that playing the work straight and in period...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2024

BERNASCONI L'Huomo (Oberlinger)

Andrea Bernasconi was maestro di coro at Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà (1744 53) until he was recruited by Elector Maximilian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

Susan Bullock: Songs My Father Taught Me

The gender-switch in this common title is significant. The homey passing-on tradition, suggested by the many ‘Songs My Mother Taught...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

The Madrigal Reimagined

It didn’t take long for the madrigal to become a vehicle for all manner of experimentation – reworkings of texts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2024

Bach's Roots. Early Influences on the Young Master

Investigations on record of Bach’s immediate central-German precursors have often relied on content from composers actually related to him, especially...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

Donna Barbara - Songs of Barbara Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi accompanied herself on the lute at various Venetian academies, so there is something to be said for present-day...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STRADELLA Ester (Vinkour)

Ester, liberatrice del popolo Ebreo was probably written in the early 1670s for one of Rome’s confraternities that sponsored Lenten...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STANFORD Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

These artists have already served notice of their commitment to this exquisitely wrought repertoire with an uncommonly beautiful recording (10/23)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2024

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