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GLUCK Écho et Narcisse (Niquet)

Écho et Narcisse (1779) was Gluck’s sixth tragédie lyrique for Paris. Produced just four months after the first run of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023

FUX La corona d’Arianna (Bernardini)

This festa teatrale, composed in 1726 to mark the Empress’s birthday, was staged anew in Graz last year, part of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

DONIZETTI Don Pasquale (Pidò)

Don Pasquale is a bellwether opera. The time was when it was widely seen as a comic gem – a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2023

DESMAREST Circé (O’Dette; Stubbs)

Hot on the heels of the first recording of Desmarest’s Circé (1694) by Les Nouveaux Caractères comes Boston Early Music...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023

James Newby: Fallen to Dust

The baritone James Newby’s debut album ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ (1/21) announced the singer as a vividly sympathetic balladeer....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2023

State Choir Latvija: Credo

How the choral music of Richard Strauss, lifelong atheist, has ended up on an album called ‘Credo’, only Hyperion can...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2023

SCHUMANN Missa Sacra (Putniņš)

Schumann’s sacred music remains the least-explored facet of his output – less appreciated even than his forays into opera and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Samuel Hasselhorn)

In a class by itself? That well-worn cliché kept surfacing during multiple listenings to this new recording, which promises to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

SAWYERS Mayflower on the Sea of Time

Oratorios are often on biblical or spiritual subjects, but Philip Sawyers’s Mayflower on the Sea of Time (2017 18) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

MEHLDAU The Folly of Desire

A musical commentary on desire? How can that work? The most famous piece in that territory – Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

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