Opera, Opera Excerpts, 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…

[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…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

…Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic weight and pace these often featherlight textures to perfection, particularly in the several delightful song-based movements with plucked or strummed... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…