January 5, 2021
Review: Donizetti: Il Paria (Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder)
Top-notch performers and engineering, led by an experienced Donizettian with a keen instinct for how to shape this music.
January 4, 2021
Review: Josquin: Masses (The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips)
Scholars deliver the crowning glory of a Herculean labour of love.
January 1, 2021
Review: Debussy and Ravel (London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth)
Roth evokes the elements and a Spanish sojourn in a fine London survey.
December 30, 2020
Review: Lehár: Cloclo (Sieglinde Feldhofer)
Weimar sauce makes a rediscovered Lehár operetta a lip-smacking treat.
December 29, 2020
Review: Hans Werner Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg
Important 20th-century opera, well sung if uninterestingly staged.
December 28, 2020
Review: The Tudor Queens (Diana Damrau)
The queen of bel canto turns her attention to Donizetti's rival queens.
December 25, 2020
Review: Charpentier: Messe à quatre choeurs & Carnets de voyage d’Italie
Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances advocate when in Rome...
December 24, 2020
Review: Tõnu Kõrvits: You Are Light and Morning
A haunting and heartfelt homage to Italian poet Cesare Pavese.
December 23, 2020
Review: Cantica obsoleta (ACRONYM)
Baroque music of unearthly beauty unearthed by this fine young ensemble.
December 22, 2020
Review: Bach: St John Passion (Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki)
Bach Collegium Japan celebrates 30th anniversary year with moving, majestic Bach.
December 21, 2020
Review: One Hundred Years of British Song, Volume 1
A penetrating, frequently revelatory start to a promising new series.
December 20, 2020
Review: Thalberg: L’Art du Chant (Paul Wee)
Songs without words delight from start to finish.
December 17, 2020
Review: Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan (Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko)
Lip-smacking music-making in BPO’s first fruits with Petrenko.