Our latest reviews
Handel: Deidamia DVD
Handel Operas are very popular for not only DVD releases but also reworkings into unusual and modernistic retellings. This is just one of those productions. Unusual set designs with weird costumes this is one of those productions for people who…
Rossini: Moses in Eygpt DVD
This production of Rossini’s tragic sacred drama, Moses in Eygpt created a lot of uneasy waves when people saw the parallels the Director and designer, Graham Vick had drawn between today’s political landscape and the days of the Bible. Set…
Brahms & Schumann, Lisa Batiashvili
Batiashvili’s previous release was one of our best sellers in 2011 and it was with great excitement I listened to her recording of the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and the Three Romances by Clara Schumann. I have to…
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Leonidas Kavakos
It is a brave musician who decides to do a complete recording of a composer, especially one that can be as fraught with difficulty as Beethoven. Leonidas Kavakos with Enrice Pace have done just that, recording all of Beethoven’s Violin…
300, Ingolf Wunder
The first thing I thought when I saw the repertoire on this recording was that it’s really quite weird. This is a seriously odd selection of repertoire, there is no doubting that Wunder is a very good pianist yet I…
Adagios by Karajan
There is something truly heart rendering about the works simply titled ‘Adagio’. If you’ve ever heard the Death of Ase by Grieg and not been moved, then you need to hear it done by Karajan. There is a cult around…
Bach, Nathalie Stutzmann
I have waxed lyrical about Nathalie Stutzmann and her many talents a number of times before so when her latest recording landed upon my desk I was thrilled to listen to it. Although slightly disappointed to see it was a…
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
I couldn’t put this book down. I carried it with me everywhere, reading it on my lunchbreak, on the tram and standing in line at the supermarket.
It’s a fantastic, addictive read – The Breakfast Club meets The Walking Dead…
Meet the Misses
Oh, I can’t resist Lisa Miller.
In her divine Car Tape albums, she wrapped her vocal chords around lesser-known country, blues and folk songs and made them all her own. In Meet the Misses, her seventh solo outing, she…
4 Buenos Aires
Bandonéonist Denis Plante is already a dominant presence in the world’s contemporary tango scene, and this new recording further cements thatdominance. Plante’s arrangements are striking as well as faithful to the very essence of the tango spirit, and he works…
Browse our reviews by category
