Reviews
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CD Choice – Cav & Pag from Graz Opera
Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci Mascagni/Leoncavallo Oehms Classics OC987 ***** Bogged down is initially what I thought of a new recordingRead More -
Fidelio at the Royal Opera House, London
Reviewed by Helena Matheopoulos Beethoven’s only opera was programmed as the ROH’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of theRead More -
Bach: St Matthew Passion – Choral CD review
Bach: St Matthew Passion Benjamin Bruns (t, Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (s), Damien Guillon (a), Makoto Sakurada (t), Christian Immler (b,Read More -
Viola und Orgel – Organ CD review
Viola und Orgel Bettina Leitner, ‘Bruckner Organ’, Stiftsbasilika St Florian, Upper Austria; Bénédicte Royer (va, va d’amore) Gramola 99168 [61:35]Read More -
Rob Schwimmer’s Heart of Hearing
Review by Andy Hamilton Polymath Rob Schwimmer’s intriguing and enjoyable second solo album features originals, jazz standards and Americana. SchwimmerRead More -
Review: Wozzeck at Greek National Opera
Wozzeck – Berg Greek National Opera ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As the director Olivier Py pointed out in the February issue ofRead More -
Review: Madam Butterfly
Madam Butterfly – Puccini English National Opera ⭐⭐⭐ Can you really have too much of a good thing? TheRead More -
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
