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Trio Casals: Moto eterno

This is the fifth album that Trio Casals have released for Navona in their ‘Moto’ series. The line-up has changed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2021

VOLLRATH Transit Voices – Underground landscapes

Carl Vollrath’s (b1931) music for clarinet has been well served by Navona on three previous releases and this new two-disc...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2021

RACHMANINOV; SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 1 (Zixiang Wang)

Given the option to pair one Scriabin and one Rachmaninov sonata, most young pianists would choose the latter’s popular Second...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2021

Ludovic Tézier: Verdi

Ludovic Tézier has arguably been the leading Verdi baritone on the global stage for the best part of a decade...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2021

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos (Thielemann)

When I surveyed available recordings for a Collection on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos (2/14), it was a live...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2021

ROSSI L'Orfeo (Sartori)

When the nepotistic Barberini fell from grace after the death in 1644 of Pope Urban VIII, the deceased pontiff’s nephews...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2021

HANDEL; MOZART Arias and Overtures (Mari Eriksmoen)

This is a fine disc, so let’s get the negative, non-musical criticisms out of the way. From time to time...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2021

GLUCK Alceste (Manacorda)

Of the operas by Gluck that one is likely to encounter in the theatre, Alceste is surely almost the greatest,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2021

DODGSON Margaret Catchpole - Two Worlds Apart

Stephen Dodgson’s reputation may lie primarily with his chamber and instrumental music but his diverse output included three chamber operas....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2021

CAVALLI Ercole Amante (Pichon)

Cardinal Mazarin planned lavish festivities for Louis XIV’s marriage to his double first cousin Maria Theresa of Spain, so the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2021

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