Search Results for: paul godfrey

A welcome sound première recording for one of Cavalli’s more dramatically involving operas [PCG]

Slatkin’s cycle emphasises the composer’s structural mastery [PCG]

A delightful baroque double bill in an enjoyable period production and setting [PCG]

A reissue of a unique and valuable recording undermined by catastrophic failures of presentation [PCG]

What should have been an important and innovative release ruined by basic failures of presentation [PCG]

A sampler for the newly remastered Decca/Solti Ring demonstrates that the improvements are more than simply cosmetic [PCG]

An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]

An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]

Pristine remastering of the first Boult cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies reaches a triumphant conclusion [PCG]

by John Quinn

Another triumph for Pristine’s re-masterings of the Boult/Decca cycle [PCG]

An astounding new opera from John Corigliano receives a benchmark performance [PCG]

A ground-breaking recording of a ground-breaking American musical [PCG]

A superior reissue of Peter Hall’s other superlative Britten production from Glyndebourne [PCG]

A beautiful new work from Estonia which will add to the growing reputation of the composer [PCG]

A star Is born! Let’s hope he will resist overexposure [GF]

Fine historical performances indispensable to any Britten collection [WH]

Sir Bryn Terfel triumphs in Mussorgsky’s original vision of his conscience-stricken Tsar [PCG]

A delightfully entertaining modern take on Rossini brings overtones of Fellini to the action [PCG]

Cathy finally comes home in Herrmann’s magnum opus superbly performed [NB]

Extracts from an almost unknown superb opera raise hopes for a new complete recording [PCG]

Two world première Britten recordings remastered by Pristine make an enticing offering [PCG]

A clever coupling by Falletta and Naxos [PCG]