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MOZART; MYSLIVEČEK Arias

Like the much-missed Lucia Popp, Simona aturová is a Slovak soprano from Bratislava. Her Haydn disc (Orfeo) was an Editor’s...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2015

CILEA Adriana Lecourvreur

Like other contemporary second-stage verismo dramas, Adriana Lecouvreur is chock-a-block with unfulfilled sexual promise and obsessive moving of period furniture....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

CATEL Les bayadères

The latest addition to the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s series of once well-known, now forgotten, French operas takes us to a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

BURRY Baby Kintyre

Babies suffer a dire fate in opera – tossed into the fire (Il trovatore) or thrown under the ice (Jenůfa)...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

BIZET The Pearl Fishers

From Naples comes a less than sharp revival of Bizet’s best nearly-nearly opera. The Pearl Fishers is always worth hearing...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

Les Vents Français: Winds and Piano

Two favourites (of mine, at any rate) frame this three-CD set of wind-ensemble pieces from Les Vents Français. The fact...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

La Vida Breve

What initially looks like a marginally relevant disc turns out to be a deceptively smart, feel-good collection that also solves...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

Tabea Zimmermann: Romance oubliée

This collection of Romantic pieces is remarkable for the outstanding quality of the playing. Tabea Zimmermann and Thomas Hoppe give...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

The English Phantasy

Given the richness and uniqueness of much of the chamber music motivated by the Cobbett Competition (instigated in 1905), it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2015

NONO Seguente

There was a period in my life when I would regularly overdose on late-period Luigi Nono. The all-encompassing scope of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015

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