Reviews
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Review: Tosca and La bohème by Opera Undone
Opera Undone: Tosca and La bohème Trafalgar Studios Puccini is the composer to be unravelled in Opera Undone’s latestRead More -
William Mathias: Choral Music – Choral CD review
William Mathias: Choral Music St John’s Voices, The Gentlemen of St John’s / Graham Walker (dir) Naxos 8.574162 [71:52] ★★★★★Read More -
Review: Igor Levit plays Beethoven, Bartók and Brahms
Review by Jacob Bird Igor Levit and Markus Becker offered a tightly wrought programme of Beethoven, Brahms and Bartók inRead More -
Macbeth, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Derby Theatre, and tour
In the opening moments of Macbeth at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, a young lad becomes caught up in the clansmen’sRead More -
Review: Der Vampyr
Der Vampyr – Heinrich Marschner Gothic Opera The Old Church, Stoke Newington, couldn’t have been a more appropriate venueRead More -
Renée Fleming: a survey of her recorded legacy
Francis Muzzu gives a personal overview of the 25-year recording career of opera’s leading soprano Mention Renée Fleming to aRead More -
Review: Idomeneo
Idomeneo, re di Creta – Mozart Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Idomeneo is not the easiest of Mozart’s works toRead More -
Review: Ermonela Jaho at Wigmore Hall
Ermonela Jaho – An Evening with Rosina Storchio Wigmore Hall, 2 February 2020 It is official that London lovesRead More -
Review: Carmen
Carmen – Bizet English National Opera Calixto Bieito’s production of Bizet’s Carmen returns to the English National Opera, eightRead More -
Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben – Organ CD Review
Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben Peter Holder, Holzhey organ (1797), Neresheim Abbey Fugue State Records FSRCD 015Read More -
Review: Tosca
Tosca – Puccini Teatro alla Scala, Milan Italy staggers on as its economic and political crises persist, but theRead More -
Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae – Choral CD review
Haydn: Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae Johanna Winkel (s), Sophie Harmsen (a), Benjamin Bruns (t), Wolf Matthias FriedrichRead More -
Review: Orpheus at ENO
Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck); Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach); Orphée (Glass); The Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle) English National Opera ReviewRead More -
Review: Keys to Music Theory 1
Keys to Music Theory 1 Read More -
Review: NYT REP’s Frankenstein
Currently running at Southwark Playhouse, the NYT REP’s production of Frankenstein explores important scientific debate, present in the original text,Read More -
Magnificat – Choral CD Review
Magnificat Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Glen Dempsey (org) / Andrew Nethsingha (dir) Signum Records SIGCD 588 [58:44] ★★★★★Read More -
Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, vol. 3 – Organ CD Review
Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, vol. 3 Masaaki Suzuki, Silbermann organ, Freiberg Cathedral BIS-2421 [79:07] ★★★★★ This is theRead More -
Johann Sebastian Bach: Dritter Theil der Clavierübung – Organ CD Review
Johann Sebastian Bach: Dritter Theil der Clavierübung Andreas Fischer, Flentrop organ (2013), St Catherine’s Church, Hamburg MDG Scene MDG 906Read More -
Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité – Organ CD Review
Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité Tom Winpenny, Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík Naxos 8.573979 [71:19] ★★★★★ Tom Winpenny continuesRead More -
Review: The Intelligence Park
The Intelligence Park – Gerald Barry Music Theatre Wales at the Royal Opera House Review by Tom Sutcliffe ARead More
