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Chinese company takes control of Naxos

A Beijing-based music services platform takes a controlling interest in the classical label founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann.

September 29, 2025
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Mayr: Amor non ha ritegno (Yeree Suh, Markus Schäfer, Daniel Ochoa, Niklas Mallmann, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk)

Another rediscovered gem from the man who taught Donizetti.

June 30, 2025
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Massenet: Hérodiade (Orchestra and Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola)

A vibrant new account of Massenet's Biblical epic.

December 23, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Krieger: Orchestral Works (Goías Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson)

Little known Brazilian music of real distinction.

January 26, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (The Lily’s Project, Fabrice Bollon)

Love letter to Janáček retains some of the composer’s charm but less of his bite.

October 18, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Czerny: Piano Concertinos (Rosemary Tuck, English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge)

Tuck rounds off her entertaining and illuminating Czerny series in style.

August 11, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music
CD and Other Review

Review: Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 (Tippett Quartet)

From Vienna to Hollywood, three quartets that should be heard more often.

August 2, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Cavalieri: Rappresentatione Di Anima Et Di Corpo (Il Giardino Armonico, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Giovanni Antonini)

In world’s first opera, moral debates and souls in torment have seldom felt such fun.

May 19, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Auber: Le Philtre (Luiza Fatyol, Adina Vilichi, Patrick Kabongo, Emmanuel Franco, Eugenio Di Lieto, Kraków Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Luciano Acocella)

Auber’s zesty elixir offers a tonic that's as lip-smacking as Donizetti’s.

March 22, 2023
Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Puccini: La Bohème (Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Stefan Herheim, Eivind Gullberg Jensen)

Diego Torre leads a fine cast in Herheim’s kaleidoscopic exploration of bereavement.

September 8, 2022
Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Camargo Guarnieri: Choros Vol. 2; Flor de Tremembé (São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Tibiriçá)

Spicy Latin-flavoured concertos, warmly played.

July 15, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral
features

On the Record: June 2022

The piano leads the field with front runners Mitsuko Uchida and Leif Ove Andsnes, but first an auspicious start to a brand new Mahler cycle.

May 23, 2022
Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Les Arts Florissants, William Christie)

Cross-channel collaboration lends piquant French sensibility to a great English opera.

May 11, 2022

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