Orchestral, Puccini (composer)

Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Oscillating between benign and highspirited in character, Puccini’s 1880 mass comes with moments that would not sound out of place in a Verdi opera. Don’t expect to plunge the emotional depths;... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As one of today’s leading Puccini interpreters, Rizzi is well qualified to create new pieces of this type, which are in effect opera without voices ...Though not in dramatic order, the technically... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

An attractive programme [which] shows off the high quality of the Filarmonica della Scala…the brightness of the strings is offset by the warmth of the horns…and a neatness of attack as well... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Noseda] approaches each item with a relish and stylistic certainty that makes you sit up and listen. The playing, also, is the equivalent of what one might hear in a major opera house, and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The sound quality throughout the set is often rather better than you might expect, given the clandestine nature of the enterprise and the age of the originals...What a wonderful privilege, being... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 More…