Browse: CD, Wolf-Ferrari (composer)

There is frequent evidence of a big personality, of an exciting expressive impetuosity and of fabulously fluent fingers (even if clarity is sometimes compromised by the acoustic process)…In short,... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

From The Jewels of the Madonna to Il campiello, Wolf-Ferrari was up there with his Italian contemporaries Puccini and Mascagni when it came to writing music that simply basks in the glow of the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is an important historic issue, and its super-budget price makes it even more attractive. — Classical CD Review, February 2019 More…

Maeder can certainly turn on the charm but never goes coy, sings always with accuracy, purity and freshness, and articulates very clearly. She is also very fortunate in her accompanist. Gerard... — International Record Review, November 2011 More…

For many it’s Wolf-Ferrari’s masterpiece, and it’s a remarkable score: suffused with easy-going Italianate melody and rhythms, remarkably light on its feet at a time where operatic humour was... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

The conductor shows his mastery of phrase and idiom immediately in the opening La Traviata Prelude which is beautifully done, and the same poise gives distinction to the famous Cavalleria Rusticana... — Stereo Record Guide More…

The ‘Dreams and Drama’ title of this disc is entirely apt. Baldini and Donne are a terrific partnership, bringing out every nuance in these comparatively unknown works and relishing Wolf-Ferrari’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…