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PICKER Fantastic Mr Fox (Rose)

Opera has done much during the past few decades to shed its elite, high-art credentials. In many ways, children’s opera...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2019

Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero

‘Zero to Hero’ proclaims Sony of a recital that begins with the ‘loser’ Don Ottavio (is he?) and ends with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019

MOZART Don Giovanni (Montanari)

They really don’t make them like this any more. Recorded in 2015 and now emerging as a tribute to the...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019

GOUNOD La nonne sanglante (Equilbey)

La nonne sanglante is drawn from the (very substantial) subplot of The Monk, the Gothic horror novel by Matthew Lewis....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019

GOUNOD Faust (Rousset)

Hot on the heels of Naxos’s release of the ‘1864 version’ of Gounod’s hit opera (A/19), here comes a release...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019

CHARPENTIER Les arts florissans. Les Plaisirs de Versailles

Having recently welcomed the first interpretation of Les arts florissants to have been recorded for nearly 40 years, within a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019

HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Egarr. Mortensen)

‘In the Brockes Passion Handel comes nearest to challenging Bach, and retires discomfited’, was Winton Dean’s withering verdict in his...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019

Konstantin Krimmel: Saga

German ballads, with their supernatural 19th-century narratives and less-than-exalted reputation, might seem to be an odd starting point in the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2019

Routes du Cafe

If one searches for Zimmermannsche Kaffeehaus online, up comes its location in Katharinenstrasse, Leipzig, the map helpfully annotated with the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019

Jennifer Johnston: A Love Letter to Liverpool

There’s more to Liverpool’s musical identity than Lennon and McCartney. A few years ago the RLPO released a series of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019

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