Barbara Hannigan’s new album with the LUDWIG Orchestra explores dance through the worlds of salsa, cabaret, Broadway, and Viennese waltz.
Tag: Soprano
Review: Made for Opera – Nadine Sierra, Soprano
Nadine Sierra’s new release with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai presents three iconic heroines from operas by Verdi, Donizetti, and Gounod.
Review: Mozart x 3 – Elsa Dreisig, Soprano
Soprano Elsa Dreisig, in a collaboration with Kammerorchester Basel, performs some of Mozart’s best loved arias from his da Ponte and seria operas.
Review: Handel – Enchantresses – Sandrine Piau
Soprano Sandrine Piau’s latest collaboration with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas adds to her already distinguished Handel discography.
Review: Grieg – Songs – Lise Davidsen, Leif Ove Andsnes
In their first collaboration, Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes perform Edvard Grieg’s finest songs from Haugtussa and the Op. 59 Five Poems, among others.
Year In Review – Our Top Classical Albums for 2021
We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2021 comes to an end it’s time for members of The Classic Review staff to pick their favorite albums of the year.
Review: Puccini – Madama Butterfly – Foster
Soprano Melody Moore, tenor Stefano Secco, and Orquestra Gulbenkian feature in a new performance of Puccini’s iconic Madama Butterfly.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, December 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Sabine Devieilhe Sings Bach and Handel
Sabine Devieilhe is accompanied by Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, in cantatas for solo soprano by Bach and arias by Handel.
Review: Amata della Tenebre – Anna Netrebko, Soprano
Soprano Anna Netrebko presents her first solo album in five years with opera’s most iconic arias from Purcell, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, and Wagner.
