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OFFENBACH La Périchole (Minkowski)

If you wanted proof of the adage that whereas English operetta is all about class, French operetta is all about...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019

MONTEVERDI L’incoronazione di Poppea (Christie)

William Christie has conducted several productions of Poppea, including a staging by Pier Luigi Pizzi filmed in Madrid in 2010...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (Galli)

It’s been a good few years for Cav on film, presented alongside Pag on fine, thought-provoking DVDs from the Royal...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2019

GIBSON Violet Fire (Rossi)

His name may not be the first to spring to mind when discussing American minimalist music, but Jon Gibson has...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019

BARTÓK Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Gardner)

Both John Relyea and Michelle DeYoung have recorded these roles before – both, as it happens, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

Messe du Roi Soleil

This is an imaginary confection of a Mass for the Sun King. Music within worship at the court of Louis...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019

The Last Rose of Summer: Folksongs from the British Isles (The Queen's Six)

The King’s Singers cast a long shadow, and it looms particularly dark over this latest release by The Queen’s Six....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

Kaiser Maximilian I

In a year packed with major anniversaries – Leonardo, Queen Victoria, Gandhi, Napoleon – it may have slipped your attention...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song

Subtitled ‘Women’s Voices in American Song’, Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s hugely ambitious debut solo album takes a broad approach to its own...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2019

VASKS Lugsana/Prayer

Prayer for a Mother (1978) is the earliest work by Vasks on this disc and provides not only an arresting...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2019

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