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OFFENBACH La princesse de Trébizonde (Daniel)

A young man of more-than-usually sensitive disposition falls in love, not with a living, breathing girl but with a beautiful...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

Between Breaths

I think I must be predisposed genetically towards music for percussion (hopefully in my next life I am fated to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

JOHNSON De Organizer. The Dreamy Kid

Near the end of the last century, the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp of the pianist and composer...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023

BALLARD The Four Moons

For their fourth Naxos album, Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony led by music director John Jeter turn their attention from Florence...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2023

AZMEH 'Starlighter'

Ever since they formed nearly two decades ago, Brooklyn Rider have been reimagining the string quartet’s potential both in their...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023

STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex (Gatti)

Given the way Daniele Gatti romanticises Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sony, A/13; RCO Live, 4/18), you wouldn’t peg him...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas (Bates)

The domestic, small-scale associations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a girls’ school in Chelsea cling persistently to the composer’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

Jonathan Tetelman: The Great Puccini

'Tetelman is the real deal’ was how I concluded my review of the Chilean-American tenor’s debut album last year (10/22)....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23

MASSENET Ariane (Campellone)

With the great successes of Manon and Werther behind him, Jules Massenet sought creative renewal in Ariane (1906), a durable,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW23

JANÁCEK The Cunning Little Vixen BOLLON Twelve Lilies for Leoš

And still they come, the Covid projects. Why record them? It’s understandable that during the period of social distancing, the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

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