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DEBUSSY Études. Children's Corner (Aleck Karis)

When it comes to contemporary late 20th-/early 21st-century piano repertoire, Aleck Karis has few peers. He plays Elliott Carter’s Night...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

CUNNINGHAM Indiana Collectanea

This ninth disc from Navona devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) concentrates on instrumental and chamber pieces...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas. Trio (Marie Ross)

It’s wise to leave preconceptions at the door while listening to this captivating programme of Brahms clarinet works. The musicians...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2020

VERDI La Traviata (Balke)

This new Traviata, the first studio recording for some 25 years not to be based round a specific staging, I...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

ROSSINI La Cenerentola (Dante)

This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’s first foray into the media market,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020

OFFENBACH Maître Péronilla (Poschner)

A touch of Hispanic sunshine always suited Offenbach, and having already produced a fine new recording of the South American-set...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2020

MONIUSZKO Flis. Beata

Fabio Biondi’s recording of The Raftsman was made in tandem with concert performances of the work given in Warsaw to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Lyniv)

This Cav & Pag might easily pass by unnoticed: recorded live in Graz, it has only one big name to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK From the House of the Dead (Young)

Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead can be a difficult work to stage. Based on Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

HENZE The Bassarids (Nagano)

Heavy funerary iconography, Rossellini lighting and an unflinching gaze at la famiglia places Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging of The Bassarids somewhere...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

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