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CUNNINGHAM Proscenium Moments

I welcomed Navona Records’ ninth disc devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) last May, archival recordings of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Last Piano Pieces (Victor Rosenbaum)

Victor Rosenbaum begins the first of Brahms’s Op 117 Intermezzos at a brisk pace, bringing cross-rhythmic lines to the fore....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

Linda Richardson: Italian Opera Arias

Between 1998 and 2010 Chandos issued, under its ‘Opera in English’ banner, a series of operatic recital discs featuring a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021

WUORINEN Haroun and the Sea of Stories

A 12-note opera – for children? Well, yes, and rather good it is, too! Charles Wuorinen, who died in March...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

VIVALDI Argippo (Biondi)

In 2008 the harpsichordist Ondřej Macek made a valiant attempt to reconstruct Vivaldi’s lost Argippo (Prague, 1730), itself a revision...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021

ROSSINI Matilde di Shabran (Pérez-Sierra)

‘It was really enough, more than enough. The entire performance was like an idolatrous orgy; everyone acted there as if...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021

KAYSER Scherz, List und Rache

In 18th-century Venice, two sweethearts plot their revenge on the miserly Doctor who has swindled them – first by pretending...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

DONIZETTI Il Paria (Elder)

When I interviewed Roger Parker for an article on Opera Rara in the July 2018 Gramophone he spoke enthusiastically of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Leonore BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Brown; Honeck)

The difference in title is nominal, circumstantial and a little misleading: both of these versions of Beethoven’s only opera are...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021

PURCELL Tyrannic Love

Seventeenth-century English composers knew a thing or two about epidemics, restrictions, conflicts and the surge of cultural release that comes...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021

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