Browse: Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1

The voice is weighty, muscular and so dark-hued as to be almost contralto-like in timbre; the characterisation is never less than forthright...There is no doubting Netrebko’s musical commitment,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

an excellent programme in its own right, hard to better, even though, surprisingly, Jarvi in his long career has conducted little or no theatrical Wagner. He tends to favour measured tempos,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the splendour of her sound and the depth of her feeling make these excerpts indispensable — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Norman’s voice, straddling with ease the range between soprano and mezzo, had a richness of tone that is all too rare in heroic sopranos of any generation...She rides triumphantly over any possible... — MusicWeb International, 26th February 2014 More…

The oddities were odd: the out-of-synch hands, the sometimes bemusing understatement. But what artistry and grace… Gorgeous tonal range too (as in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata) from the ageing... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These overtures and preludes were recorded live in the Eberbach Abbey basilica, whose resonant acoustic magnifies the unusually soft-grained character of Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s interpretations.... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…