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1919 Viola Sonatas - Hidden Treasures from an Epoch Year (Hillary Herndon)

For the second Berkshire Festival Competition in 1919, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge offered $1000 to the best new work for viola...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

LAITMAN 'The Ocean of Eternity'

As I noted with her previous Acis release, ‘Are Women People?’ (10/21), Lori Laitman’s works are often emotional in expression...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

Freddie De Tommaso: Il Tenore

The young British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso caused something of a stir last year with his debut album ‘Passione’ (7/21),...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2022

Samuel Mariño: Sopranista

Samuel Mariño is a true male soprano: his chest voice goes all the way up (and up and up –...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Barenboim)

Neither conductor Barenboim (with several decades’ performances) nor stage director Tcherniakov (two previous productions) are beginners with this piece, and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2022

VERDI Don Carlo (Haitink)

Luchino Visconti’s 1958 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo for Covent Garden was a talismanic event in the Royal Opera’s history....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2022

ULLMANN Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Hahn)

The circumstances of the composition of Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis – within the artistic ghetto of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

MOZART Lucio Silla (Equilbey)

The success of Mozart’s first opera seria, Mitridate, for the ducal theatre in Milan, led immediately to a second commission....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2022

HANDEL Rodelinda (Cummings)

Perhaps it was the superficial similarity to Fidelio – a virtuous wife unwavering in heroic devotion to her husband –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

DORÁTI Der Künder (Fischer-Dieskau)

'Composing conductors are a suspicious lot,’ Antal Dorati remarked in his 1979 memoir Notes from Seven Decades, which placed him...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2022

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