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RUNESTAD Sing, Wearing the Sky

Each of these 10 works by Jake Runestad, written between 2006 and 2018, has a similar reverence for texts that...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW20

LIANG Inheritance

Before the rise of Silicon Valley and Dionne Warwick’s 1968 hit ‘Do you know the way to San Jose’, California...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW20

BARBER. RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jonah Kim)

Sergey Rachmaninov and Samuel Barber were both twenty-somethings when they composed their only sonatas for cello and piano. These are...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW20

Ermonela Jaho: Anima Rara

Soprano recital albums are nothing new under the sun, but this one is focused less on the singer and more...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20

ZAJC Nikola Šubić Zrinski (Matvejeff)

Under the baton of Rudolf Kempe, the ‘Vienna Philharmonic on Holiday’ recorded the sturdy Kolo (round-dance) from Ero the Joker...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen (Kober)

Unusually for Wagner, the curtain rises on Act 2 of Die Walküre to a quite static stage direction: there stands...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

PUCCINI Suor Angelica. Gianni Schicchi (Galli)

First, a major gripe. In the October issue I reviewed Il tabarro from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, part of Denis...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20

MASSENET Don Quichotte (Cohen)

Not unlike Gounod in his opera from Goethe’s Faust, Massenet – towards the end of his career – reduced another...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW20

HANDEL Rinaldo (Dantone)

Accademia Bizantina launches its own label with a live recording of a production staged in Como by OperaLombardia. The theatre...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW20

DONIZETTI 'Tudor Queens' (Diana Damrau)

There’s a lot to admire here from Diana Damrau, not least her decision on this Donizetti album to opt for...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW20

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