Jordi Savall; Strauss Lieder; La donna del lago; Bartok Two-piano music

5-star review of Jordi Savall's viola da gamba concert at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music:
www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/sjss-savall.htm

Opera Rara's new release of La donna del lago from last year's Edinburgh Festival:
www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/donna.htm

Anne Schwanewilms sings Strauss Lieder - Hyperion's Complete Strauss Lieder Vol 2:
www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/schwanewilms-strauss.htm

Bartok music for two pianos:
www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/mandarin.htm

Check back soon for reviews of Colin Davis and the ECO, Orfeo at SJSS, Death in Venice and Fidelio at Covent Garden

Oedipus Rex (LSO/Gergiev); Solomon (SJSS)

Solomon at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music:
www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/solomon.htm

Oedipus Rex at the Barbican with the LSO:
www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/lso-oedipus.htm

Pelleas at Covent Garden; Gerald Finley interview; Berg Quartet; Pauline Viardot CD

First night of Covent Garden's new production of Pelleas and Melisande:
www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/pelleas.htm  

Gerald Finley interview:
www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/finley.htm

Alban Berg Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall:
www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/berg.htm

Pauline Viardot Opera Rara CD:
www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/viardot.htm

Owen Wingrave and Murray Perahia

The Royal Opera's new production of Owen Wingrave in the Linbury Studio Theatre:
www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/wingrave.htm

Murray Perahia's concert at the Barbican Hall:
www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/perahia.htm

On the Town

ENO's 2005 production of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town returned to the Coliseum last night:

www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/town.htm

Not to be missed!

Giulio Cesare at the Barbican; La finta giardiniera from Salzburg (DVD)

Rene Jacobs conducts Giulio Cesare at the Barbican:

www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/cesare.htm


La finta giardiniera DVD (Deutsche Grammophon):

www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/finta.htm

Netrebko and Villazon Duets; Dom Sebastien

New CD reviews:

Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko duet their way through Verdi, Massenet, Bizet and others:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/netrebko-villazon.htm

Donizetti's last opera, Dom Sebastien, roi de Portugal, comes in a sublime live recording from Covent Garden:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/sebastien.htm