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Review of BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Wellber)

BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Wellber)

This has taken a few years to hit the shelves. Arnaud Bernard’s staging of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Review of Bryn Terfel: The Verbier Recital

Bryn Terfel: The Verbier Recital

We’re lucky to have several early recordings of Bryn Terfel singing lieder – including a handsome Liederkreis (DG, 5/00) –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

Review of Oh, ma belle brunette

Oh, ma belle brunette

Prolific representations of pastoral life are sometimes dismissed as whimsy, especially when the members of the nobility were masquerading as...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2022

Review of A Meditation: St John Henry Newman

A Meditation: St John Henry Newman

As with all of The Sixteen’s releases, this new one manages to magically bridge the old and the new with...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022

Review of Lux Laetitiae: Splendours of the Marian Cult in Early Renaissance Ferrara

Lux Laetitiae: Splendours of the Marian Cult in Early Renaissance Ferrara

I’ve not always been kind to La Reverdie, but one must salute the remarkable stability of their cast and approach...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2022

Review of Entre Deux Mondes

Entre Deux Mondes

This is one of those rare recitals that takes one risk after another – with handsome pay-offs in what initially...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2022

Review of Celestial Dawn

Celestial Dawn

Until recently girls had little choice when it came to top-level choristerships. The news that both St John’s, Cambridge, and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

Review of SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerald Finley)

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerald Finley)

After Winterreise (4/14) and Schwanengesang (A/19), Gerald Finley and Julius Drake arrive at Die schöne Müllerin. As with the previous...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

Review of SCHUBERT Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

SCHUBERT Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

After an impressive debut album devoted to Schumann (11/20), the young German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn turns to Schubert for his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

Review of SANDONI Cantatas & Instrumental works

SANDONI Cantatas & Instrumental works

A search reveals that the name of Pietro (or Pier) Giuseppe Sandoni has never appeared in Gramophone before, so a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022


 

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