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RAMEAU Zoroastre (1749 version. Kossenko)

Zoroastre, premiered at the Paris Opéra on December 5, 1749, was the fifth opera – and the first tragedy –...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

PASQUINI L’Idalma, overo Chi la dura la vince (De Marchi)

Idalma (Rome, 1680) has parallels with Don Juan: the womaniser Lindoro keeps a list of his conquests, has deserted Irene...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2023

MOZART La clemenza di Tito (Glassberg)

Nothing hits you with greater force in Opéra de Rouen Normandie’s performance of La clemenza di Tito than the Overture....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2023

MARTINŮ Les larmes du couteau. The Comedy on the Bridge

Martinů’s short one-act operas make for a bright and entertaining double bill, and they receive bright and entertaining performances on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2023

DAVIS X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

This is the second recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The first appeared in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023

CHERUBINI Les Abencérages (Vashegyi)

Who, or what, are Les Abencérages, you might well ask. There’s a clue in the subtitle, which is ‘The Standard...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Vespro di Natale: Christmas Vespers

It is not a new idea to build a Monteverdi Vespers (Venetian) that is not the Monteverdi Vespers (Mantuan), but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023

Tudor Music Afterlives

This intriguing recital brings us music from a period that is very well documented on record but much of what...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2023

Music For Lady Louise

‘Pray, good people, be civil, I am the Protestant whore’: so said Nell Gwyn, displaying the wit for which she...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Ruby Hughes: Echo

This meticulously curated programme from Ruby Hughes could be called ‘The Quiet Album’. It intersperses Bach sarabandes for solo keyboard...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2023

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