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MOZART Idomeneo (Netopil)

Not since Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni (BelAir, A/13) have I seen such a wrong-headed account of a Mozart...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022

Emőke Baráth: Dualità - Handel Opera Arias

‘Her person was coarse and masculine.’ ‘She was short and squat, with a doughy cross face.’ ‘She had so little...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

CASABLANCAS L'Enigma Di Lea (Pons)

The first opera to be premiered at Barcelona’s Liceu for over a decade, Benet Casablancas’s L’enigma di Lea apparently aroused...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

James Gilchrist: One Hundred Years of British Song vol 3

The opening moments of this collection land you in a collision of disparate stimuli. The opening bars of the first...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022

Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque

Time and again, one’s ears search for something subversive, some sort of coded protest in the music of these often-forgotten...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022

Ice Land: The Eternal Music

Graham Ross isn’t the first musician to have got Iceland under his skin – a process that, for many of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022

Barbara Hannigan: Dance with Me

The idea for this recording took shape following a concert the Ludwig Orchestra gave in Birmingham when Peppie Wiersma, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022

Cachua Serranita

The Jesuit mission to Latin America during the 17th and 18th centuries left a spiritual legacy, but also a musical...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2022

TELEMANN Complete Cantatas Vol 1

To CPO’s already generous Telemann catalogue we can now add this first volume in what will be the first complete...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022

SUCKLING The Tuning

Earlier releases of Martin Suckling – his song-cycle Candlebird (London Sinfonietta, 2/13) or the NMC ‘portrait’ centred on his Piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022

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