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Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d’amore

Jakub Józef Orliński made his solo debut a year ago with a collection of sacred works (‘Anima sacra’ – Erato,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2019

Benjamin Bernheim

Just a matter of months after the release of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s recording of the 1859 Faust (11/19), Benjamin Bernheim...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Fisch)

Not just a commemoration of a rare local event, this live concert recording – drawn from two performances and, presumably,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2019

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rhorer)

It took a Paris-born theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us the definitive filmed staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2019

MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov (1869 version. Nagano)

Confession time. Although it’s deeply unfashionable to admire Rimsky-Korsakov’s cosmetic surgery on Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, I admit to loving it....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019

HANDEL Rodrigo (Cummings)

Handel the stage composer was not quite the finished article when he composed Rodrigo for Florence in the autumn of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019

GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (1762 Vienna version. Bates)

This is the first version of Gluck’s opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, complete on one CD: not quite penny...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019

GERVAIS Hypermnestre (Vashegyi)

If Stephen Fry is planning a third volume of Greek legends, to follow Mythos and Heroes, he might balk at...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019

FARINELLI Ann Hallenberg. Cecilia Bartoli

What would one give to time travel and hear the 18th century’s most deified, mythified castrato, who in London provoked...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019

Jonas Kaufmann: Wien

If you’re watching the calories, stop reading now. This evocative collection of Viennese sweetmeats, of wine, women, song and Sachertorte,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

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