RECORD KEEPING | Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Rolando Villazon/Yannick Nézet-Séguin)

By Paul E. Robinson on August 29, 2016

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s fresh and energetic Le Nozze di Figaro offers plenty of musical pleasure.

DVD REVIEW | Ivan the Terrible Never Sounded So Good

By Paul E. Robinson on November 19, 2015

This splendid new recording might well prompt renewed interest in this neglected repertoire. The Tsar’s Bride (1899) contains some of the most beautiful and powerful music that Rimsky-Korsakov ever wrote

CD REVIEW | Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio

By Paul E. Robinson on August 31, 2015

Tenor Rolando Villazon and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin return with the third installment in a Mozart Opera project: The Abduction from the Seraglio.

CD Review | Wagner: Die Walküre

By Paul E. Robinson on September 23, 2014

Sir Georg Solti was the conductor for the first-ever complete recording of Wagner’s Ring cycle. It was an historic event and Decca Records and producer John Culshaw deserve enormous credit for undertaking the enormous risk involved. Against all odds – EMI producer Walter Legge thought it would be a disaster - the cycle was spectacularly successful. With most of the leading Wagner singers of the day taking part the performance was glorious, and John Culshaw and his team of engineers created a sound world that was far ahead of its time.

Album review: Karina Gauvin and Les Violons du Roy warm hearts with Mozart

By Michael Vincent on March 26, 2014

Appreciation: Claudio Abbado 'changed water into fire at a moment’s notice, igniting the concert experience' when it really counted

By Open Submission on January 26, 2014

Looking back at 2013: Special Goldberg Variations top best classical and opera albums

By John Terauds on December 21, 2013

Daily album review 42: Clever silent-movie treatment, great singers revive Rossini's fourth opera Ciro in Babilonia

By John Terauds on December 16, 2013

Daily album review 29: Halls are decked with boughs of operatic grandeur at Casa Diva

By John Terauds on December 3, 2013

Album review: Anna Netrebko's dark side rules on album of Verdi arias

By John Terauds on September 24, 2013