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VERDI Il Lombardi (Mariotti)

The Lombards at the First Crusade was Verdi’s fourth opera, commissioned by the impresario Merelli after the success of Nabucco....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2019

PURCELL King Arthur (Meunier)

Vox Luminis, directed with a light touch by bass Lionel Meunier, turn their egalitarian talents to King Arthur (1691) and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2019

MOZART Così fan tutte (Pillot)

This is Così fan tutte but not quite as we know it. Described as ‘Mozart’s original thoughts recreated and recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2019

LISZT Sardanapalo. Mazeppa (Karabits)

An immensely important issue, this is the first recording of the performing edition by British musicologist David Trippett of Sardanapalo,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2019

KÁLMÁN Kaiserin Josephine (Burkert)

If you wanted to place a final full-stop to the ‘silver age’ of Viennese operetta, you could do worse than...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019

HANDEL Serse (Emelyanychev)

By all accounts the castrato Caffarelli outdid even his fellow-falsettist Senesino in boorish disregard for colleagues and audiences. Lateness and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2019

GAVEAUX Léonore (Brown)

When reading the programme at a performance of Fidelio, or inspecting a CD or DVD booklet, have you ever wondered...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2019

BIZET Carmen (von Karajan)

In some ways this is a double historical release – a performance from over 50 years ago and a preservation...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2019

BERG Wozzeck (Albrecht)

Without matching the tight ensemble or aiming for the taut pacing of Teodor Currentzis at the Bolshoi, Marc Albrecht embeds...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2019

FINNISSY Vocal Works, 1974-2015

This is one of those recordings where composer and performers seem uniquely matched. One senses a degree of commitment that...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019

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