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PIAZZOLLA María de Buenos Aires (Sprenger)

Taped in concert in Bonn in 2016, this is the second recording of Piazzolla’s operita to appear in just over...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019

KÁLMÁN Die Faschingsfee (Brandstätter)

At the height of the Munich carnival a penniless artist falls in love with a princess in disguise: 1917 must...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2019

JANÁCEK The Cunning Little Vixen (Debus)

Plenty of live performances, a handful of DVDs – but the long-term presence in the record catalogues of two much-admired...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2019

DONIZETTI L'Ange de Nisida (Elder)

There’s a little bit about the background to The Angel of Nisida (an island off Naples) in my article on...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2019

BELLINI I Puritani (Benzi)

melodrama? Like poor Elvira, betrothed to an uninteresting Puritan but drawn to the riskier chap with the fancy hat and...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2019

AUBER La Sirène (Reiland)

For Naxos’s booklet to describe La Sirène (1844) as Auber’s 14th most popular work hardly raises expectations. But this little...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

COUPERIN Complete Works for Harpsichord (Carole Cerasi)

A recording of the complete harpsichord music of François Couperin is a major project in any circumstances. But to record...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2019

Lang Lang: Piano Book

After his Swiss watch and perfume (‘Essence of my music’), Lang Lang’s latest branding exercise concerns piano education. The Lang...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019

DEAN Oblique Strategies (Andrei Ioniță)

With one possible exception, this is a masterstroke in programming from the Romanian BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniţă but...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019

Alain Lefèvre: My Paris Years

Despite his robust discography, this was my introduction to the work of the French Canadian pianist Alain Lefèvre. Titled ‘My...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2019

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