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Lise Davidsen: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi

‘I’ll be 34 by the time it’s released’, Lise Davidsen says in the booklet for her second solo album, ‘so...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021

WEBER 'The Freischütz Project' (Equilbey)

Rooted in folk song and Teutonic peasant myth, Weber’s opera with the famously untranslatable title is the epitome of German...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2021

WAGNER Lohengrin (Meister)

Arguably Lohengrin remains one of Wagner’s most problematic operas to stage today, walking a tightrope between aggrandising and critiquing ideas...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021

PUCCINI La Fanciulla del West (Foster)

Transylvania may not be the first location you would think of to track down Puccini’s operatic spaghetti western on disc,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2021

Eva Zaïcik: Royal Handel

Let’s be honest. Whoever came up with the title for this release needs to think again. ‘Royal Handel’? That’s odes,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

GRAUPNER Antiochus und Stratonica

Between 1706 and 1709 Christoph Graupner composed five operas for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt opera. Antiochus und Stratonica (1708) is one of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2021

ECCLES Semele (Perkins)

John Eccles’s setting of his friend William Congreve’s wry morality tale was one of the great might-have-beens in English operatic...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2021

DONIZETTI Pietro Il Grande (Alessandrini)

Donizetti’s fourth opera, Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie was first performed in Venice in 1819. An apprentice work in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2021

Ashley Riches: A Musical Zoo

The first thing one needs to know about ‘A Musical Zoo’ is that bass-baritone Ashley Riches, the album’s instigator, is...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2021

VILLA-LOBOS Choral transcriptions

In 1932 Villa-Lobos was made responsible for creating a music education system in Brazil. Choral singing was at the heart...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021

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