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REYNOLDS Violin Works (Gabriela Díaz)

For two minutes one hears an unaccompanied violin playing jagged short phrases, upwardly slithering long lines and discreetly deployed double-stops....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

BIDDINGTON Music from Torrens Road: Orchestral Works

I am prepared to bet that New Zealand-born composer Eric Biddington (b1953) is as unknown to the majority of this...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

JS BACH Partitas (Eleonor Bindman)

Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

WAGNER Parsifal (Wellber)

Filmed at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo shortly before Covid struck in early 2020, this Parsifal represents one of the last productions...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022

TESORI Blue

While themes of racial discrimination, injustice and racially motivated violence have simmered under the surface of the American musical theatre...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2022

SAINT-SAËNS Henry VIII (Rose)

First performed at the Paris Opéra in 1883, Henry VIII was one of the works, along with Étienne Marcel (1879)...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2022

KORNGOLD Die tote Stadt (Franck)

This release lifts the audio from the DVD of Kasper Holten’s production of Korngold’s opera released by Opus Arte in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022

JANÁCEK Jenůfa (Rattle)

Following the release of Christof Loy’s Deutsche Oper production (8/15), this is the second filmed Jenůfa from Berlin to appear...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022

HORNEMAN Aladdin

The Overture to Christian Frederik Emil Horneman’s Aladdin was once among the most-performed pieces of Danish music. It is a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022

HOLLIGER Lunea

Modernist opera has a thing for men suffering psychological breakdown. Alongside Berg’s Wozzeck, a recent go-to has been the schizophrenic...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2022

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