Purcell – Gardiner Records

To have all these seminal recordings in one box is terrific. For many years they set the standards for Purcell recordings, vocally and instrumentally, with Gardiner being the conductor who took over from Benjamin Britten in taking the major works from the 1690s seriously…

Mozart – Lucio Silla

The problem with Lucio Silla is not that Mozart wrote it when he was sixteen – he was already an experienced opera composer – nor that it has a silly story. It doesn’t…