Browse: Verdi - Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller)

The first thing to say is that Bernheim has an immaculate natural voice – rich, flexible, mellifluous and nuanced. He is at his very best in French items from the later 19th century…Moreover,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Fabiano is at his best in those great Verdian oaths of vengeance such as ‘Sprezzo la vita’ from Ernani. For complicated reasons it is usually cut in performance, but Fabiano shows us just what... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance0 / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This is a well chosen selection of tenor arias with a few comparative rarities to offset the more obvious favourites. In its way it is a mini-history of a century of Italian opera, from Donizetti's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

his musicianship melds with his keen interpretative intelligence to achieve real and extraordinary success...Otello on stage may still be ahead of him, but he explores the depths of 'Dio mi potevi'... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The two Mefistofele arias receive near-ideal performances, the Pearl Fishers romance (one of two items in which soprano duties are nicely undertaken by Aleksandra Kurzak) is enchanting, and the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pirgu's timbre isn't quite Italianate but he sounds rather like Giuseppe di Stefano in the area from A flat to B flat above the stave - slightly strained but exciting too...The heroic ring in... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…