Orchestral, Overtures, Wolf-Ferrari (composer)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The conductor here is Lance Friedel, an American who has a fairly wide repertoire that embraces the likes of Carl Nielsen and Bohuslav Martinů. Is Friedel slumming it here? Perhaps, but seconds... — MusicWeb International, April 2015 More…

[Noseda] approaches each item with a relish and stylistic certainty that makes you sit up and listen. The playing, also, is the equivalent of what one might hear in a major opera house, and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…