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MONK Memory Game

Meredith Monk’s Memory Game (2016-17) can be viewed as one single composition (not unlike a 1980s concept album), a pair...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

MARTINŮ Openings

Has there ever been a composer who, with a simple song (or set of them), communicated the sheer joy of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

FLOYD Prince of Players (Boggs)

The full-orchestral version of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, premiered in a chamber version at the Houston Grand Opera in...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2020

Isabel Bayrakdarian: The Other Cleopatra

Isabel Bayrakdarian’s superb recital with Tafelmusik (CBC, 7/05) presented key moments for the famous Egyptian Cleopatra by Handel, Mattheson, Hasse...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020

WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)

With Janowski’s new recording of this opera (Pentatone, 2/20) and the Vienna Euryanthe on both CD and DVD (Capriccio, 11/19;...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2020

VERDI Otello (Pappano)

Two years after the DVD/Blu-ray release of Jonas Kaufmann’s first Otello in the theatre (A/18), here is a full studio...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020

VERDI Nabucco (Ciampa)

The Verdi Festival in Parma produced an austere and compelling production of Il trovatore in 2018 (in the rare French...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2020

SULLIVAN Haddon Hall FORD Mr Jericho (Andrews)

Dutton is spoiling us. Not content to give us the first fully professional recording of Sullivan and Grundy’s ‘original light...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

RESPIGHI La bella dormente nel bosco (Renzetti)

Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty began life in 1922 as a small-scale piece, commissioned by the puppeteer Vittorio Podresca for performance at...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

LEMOYNE Phèdre (Vashegyi)

The choice of French operas in the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s ‘Book+CD Series’ is wonderfully unpredictable. After Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla, praised...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2020

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