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PURCELL The Indian Queen

The original play The Indian Queen (1664) was written by Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard; but in 1695...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

PURCELL The Fairy Queen

How best to tackle Purcell’s so-called semi-operas? The Fairy Queen is an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the magnificent...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015

MOZART The Magic Flute

Grand picture-book opera or inventive fringe theatre? The Magic Flute’s popularity has seen it inflated for stage spaces too big...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015

MOZART Don Giovanni

This was the first new staging of Don Giovanni at the rebuilt Nationaltheater in Munich. The producer, Günther Rennert, decided...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015

CAVALIERI Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo

The booklet-note for this release asks a total of three times the question ‘is Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima e di...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015

SMETANA String Quartets 1 & 2

This is becoming a bit of a habit. The Pavel Haas Quartet record a disc. Critics swoon and reach for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015

UK DK: Contemporary Recorder

This is not the first time Michala Petri has juxtaposed recorder works from Britain and her home country, Denmark. A...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

Sea Eagle - Works for horn

During a prestigious career stretching back to 1981, the horn player Richard Watkins has held posts with the Fires of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

Preludes in Times Past and Present

Rarely is a disc so blissfully unconcerned with accounting for itself in the marketplace. While ‘Preludes in Times Past and...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood: The Neoclassical Trumpet

As exciting album titles go – ‘Hot Rats’, ‘The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady’ or ‘The Kinks Kontroversy’ –...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

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