Opera, 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 the... — 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…

…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…

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…