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MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Fuget)

Akin to the proverbial London bus, you wait ages for a new interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse on record, then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022

LULLY Acis et Galatée (Rousset)

Acis et Galatée is the last completed opera in Lully’s distinguished output, but unlike his famous and influential tragédies lyriques...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2022

LEONCAVALLO Zingari (Rizzi)

After Leoncavallo’s Zazà (7/16), Opera Rara continues to mine the nether regions of the verismo alphabet with the same composer’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

HANDEL Amadigi di Gaula (Curnyn)

Italian opera in London was still on a precarious footing when Handel staged Amadigi in May 1715. Fickle aristocratic audiences...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022

Lisette Oropesa: French Bel Canto Arias

For her second solo album, Lisette Oropesa combines her love for both the French language and Italian music in an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022

CATALANI La Wally (Orozco-Estrada)

Despite the fame of the title-character’s ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’, Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally remains a rarity on disc –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2022

The Psalms (Choir of St John's College, Cambridge)

If I could take only a few forms of music to a desert island, the psalms sung to Anglican Chant...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2022

Vivaldi's Women

La Serenissma’s latest delve into the Vivaldi archives has thrown up a programme full of unfamiliar textures, all helping to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022

STEELANT 'Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650'

Although Philippe van Steelant (1611-70) isn’t a household name, his pedigree is hardly insignificant: a scion of a family of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2022

SILVESTROV Requiem Für Larissa (Mustonen)

This is not the first recording of Silvestrov’s Requiem, written in memory of his wife, Larissa Bondenko – it has...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022

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