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ElectroResonance

This programme of interactive electronic music by composer-improvisers Jane Rigler, Curtis Bahn and Thomas Ciufo was recorded live on a...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022

Collected Works of Beth Mehocic

The title of this disc is misleading. Beth Mehocic (1953-2022) composed a good deal more than the six works collated...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

LYN A Point on a Slow Curve

It took Dana Lyn eight years to create what might be described as a musical diorama accompanying the process by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022

ELISHA 'Anthelion'

One of the greatest joys of being a reviewer is encountering an unfamiliar compositional voice. Adrienne Elisha (1958-2017) was a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

AYLWARD Celestial Forms and Stories

The title of John Aylward’s five-movement suite, performed on a New Focus disc by members of Klangforum Wien, comes from...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2022

Nadine Sierra: Made for Opera

In the booklet note for her second solo album, Nadine Sierra waxes lyrical about how she was formed as a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)

The archetypal German Romantic opera, where folkish charm collides with sinister supernatural forces, has done well on CD. In the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

SAINT-SAËNS Phryné (Niquet)

First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1893, Phryné comes immediately after Saint-Saëns’s big stage works of the late 1870s and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

PHIBBS Juliana (Vass)

Vilified and banned though it may have been initially, Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) has more than made up any lost...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffman (Nagano)

What do you want from Les contes d’Hoffmann? Enchantment or insight? Delirious high-Romantic fantasy or probing Jungian psychodrama? False dichotomies,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022

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