Rossini

I enjoyed some unhackneyed repertoire and the marvellous singing [GF]

A pleasing concert that will almost certainly cheer you up [MMB]

Rossini’s rarely performed Elizabethan opera is given a lacklustre performance in the latest in Naxos’s Rossini Wildbad series [PT]

Vocal riches in a depressingly hyperactive production that is devoid of amusement [MP]

A pleasing but hardly essential recording of Rossini’s opera, noteworthy for being the first recorded in stereo [MP]

Rossini standards held high in a new production of The Lady of the Lake [PCG]

A feast of stylish bel canto singing for the two stars but the rest of the cast can only struggle though [MP]

More than just a souvenir of a fine recital [DC]

A musically outstanding but unusual production of Rossini’s splendid opera [RWe]

Ten very well-filled discs documenting six glorious decades at the Paris Opera [RMo]

A delightfully entertaining modern take on Rossini brings overtones of Fellini to the action [PCG]

A lovely recital presenting Melody Moore as a worthy inhabitant of the pantheon of the present generation of sopranos [GF]

An outstanding album, groundbreaking in repertoire and programming, beautifully performed and recorded [GPu]

A recital demonstrating Liszt’s love of Rossini but with an odd coupling [RCh]

An interesting alternative to the older Philips set, with another excellent cast [RMo]

(Déjà Review) Effervescent music and the unmatched panache of Reiner’s conducting are a winning formula! [PJL]

by Ralph Moore

A very attractive recording with a lot of good singing, not least from the superb Vasilisa Berzhanskaya [GF]

Hearing Cesare Siepi in his mature youth is a treat indeed [GF]

Pristine delivers this classic Barbiere in an airy and better-balanced revision, free of hiss and noise [MZ]

A delight from start to finish [MC]