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PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Pappano)

This 2017 revival was the first time Antonio Pappano had conducted Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Royal Opera production of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018

MASSENET La Navarraise (Veronesi)

'As for the work itself’, wrote George Bernard Shaw for The World on the occasion of the opera’s Covent Garden...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2018

HANDEL Xerxes (Carydis)

From Figaro and Così downwards, comic opera stagings today rarely escape without a disturbing final twist. This Serse from Frankfurt...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018

BRITTEN Death in Venice (Pérez)

It is good to see Death in Venice making its way around Europe after a lengthy period of neglect following...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2018

Impermanence

This first recording by the Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble for Sono Luminus displays a stunning precision of harmony and intonation, and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018

Grand Russian

The best performances of Tchaikovsky’s sometimes rambling and pianistically unwieldy G major Sonata project the music in symphonic terms, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018

Frolov and Friends

Igor Frolov (b1937, not to be confused with the Moscow-based cyclist of the same name, b1990!) enjoyed an international concert...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

Clusters: American Piano Explorations

Rory Cowal opens this recital with Johanna Beyer’s multi movement Clusters, a riveting and attention-grabbing work that ought to be...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018

OAKLEY Wanderer: Chamber Works

The Georgian-American composer George Oakley writes in an appealing and colourful style that blends elements of his Georgian folk heritage...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2018

MCENCROE My Symphonic Poems

'I’m not an academically trained composer/musician’, writes Mark John McEncroe in this new Navona two-disc set (the fourth devoted to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

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