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Nicolò Balducci: Amore Dolore

A fabulous opening from Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony. The scene from Riccardo Broschi’s Artaserse fizzes with life, though it’s a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos (Gatti)

This staging of Ariadne auf Naxos from Florence’s Maggio Musicale starts with a striking – not to say disturbing –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023

ROTA Il Cappello Di Paglia Di Firenze (Squeo)

This appears to be the first digital recording of Nino Rota’s 1955 comedy after a French play by Eugène Labiche...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2023

ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri (Andretta)

It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2023

GIORDANO Siberia (Uryupin)

There has been a resurgence of interest in Siberia of late as this is the second DVD of Giordano’s 1903...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023

CAVALIERI Rappresentatione Di Anima Et Di Corpo (Antonini)

Pipping Peri’s Euridice to the post by a full eight months, Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

Alexandra Lowe: Le Voyage

Anything as widely recorded as Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques needs to arrive in distinguished form to catch...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023

Divine Music: An English Songbook (Iestyn Davies)

Divinity, Iestyn Davies muses in the booklet notes for his latest recital, is a term we use these days as...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

Broken Branches (Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe)

'Discomfort’ is the unexpected emotion guitarist Sean Shibe singles out in his introduction to ‘Broken Branches’. It was his discomfort...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023

WILLAERT St John Passion

If you visit the Palazzo Colonna in Rome to admire Annibale Carracci’s remarkable The Bean Eater, along the same wall...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023

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