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ABRAHAMSEN Left, Alone

Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Hilary Hahn)

Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023

Teatro Sant'Angelo - Vivaldi, Chelleri & Ristori

The Teatro Sant’Angelo was the principal theatre in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated, as both composer and manager. It...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023

SPONTINI La Vestale (Rousset)

Following Olimpie (7/19), this is Bru Zane’s second recording of an opera by Spontini. La Vestale reached the stage of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023

PUCCINI Tosca (Chailly. Viotti)

Two Toscas, two very different shows – and two valuable records of projects giving Puccini a spring clean. In Milan,...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2023

MERCADANTE Il proscritto (Rizzi)

Mercadante’s Il proscritto was first performed in Naples, in 1842. Dividing opinion at the time (Mercadante was accused of being...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

ENGEL Grete Minde (Skryleva)

Who, you might be forgiven for asking, was Eugen Engel (1875-1943)? As Orfeo’s excellent booklet explains, he was a Berlin-based...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2023

Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music

You can quibble over the details, but when it comes to adult, mixed-voice choirs – chamber, chapel, church or cathedral...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2023

Splendours of the Gonzaga. Sacred Music from Wert to Monteverdi

This second disc from the relatively new ensemble Biscantores has had a long gestation: recorded in September 2020 as Europe...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2023

Nuit à Venise

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas explains that ‘A Night in Venice’ aims ‘to reimagine a large-scale evening of festivities on the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2023

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