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Ethel String Quartet: Persist

The string quartet Ethel have been gleefully persistent in advocating for new music. Their repertoire includes hundreds of new works,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2024

LEVERING OceanRiverLake

This compilation presents an attractive overview of the scope of Arthur Levering’s creative interests over the past decade and a...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 12/2024

IVES 'The Eye is the First Circle'

In 2021 Simone Dinnerstein created a multimedia event commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State University entitled The Eye is...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2024

JA CARPENTER Complete Ballets

With their vibrant performances of John Alden Carpenter’s three ballet scores, Gil Rose’s Boston Modern Orchestra Project have captured the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2024

WAGNER Ring Odyssey (Swensen)

However much Wagner’s uncut 18-hour Ring cycle is one of the ultimate epic immersion experiences, even staunch Wagnerites might be...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024

VERDI Macbeth (Jordan)

Verdi’s operas have their share of sorcery but none embraces the supernatural like Macbeth, and few productions push it so...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024

STRAUSS Die Fledermaus (Jurowski)

Say what you like about Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Fledermaus, but it’s not short of Fledermice. Right from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

RAMEAU Les Boréades (Vashegyi)

Les Boréades was rehearsed twice in April 1763 but then abandoned. Perhaps its libertarian plot fell foul of censors during...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2024

PUCCINI Love Affairs (Jonas Kaufmann)

Call it operatic speed dating as the tenor Jonas Kaufmann embarks on a whirlwind romance with six different sopranos. In...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2024

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Pichon)

Remember the rubber shark in Martin Kušej’s doomed Idomeneo at the Royal Opera in 2014? Its carcass is served up...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024

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