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MUSGRAVE Mary Queen of Scots

This new Lyrita reissue is the third incarnation of Virginia Opera’s live 1978 recording of Thea Musgrave’s fast-moving, gripping three-act...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

MASSENET Cendrillon (Bollon)

On Massenet’s Cinderella – late (1896) and dramaturgically unconventional – the librettist and composer Henri Cain worked rather like Verdi...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018

HANDEL Arminio (Cummings)

As captured live by NDR at the Göttingen Handel Festival last May, stage noises and imperfections inevitably arise from this...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018

FAGERLUND Höstsonaten (Storgårds)

A year after its premiere at the Finnish National Opera and appearance on OperaVision (11/17), here’s a chance to experience...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

BRITTEN Billy Budd (Bolton)

Companies releasing DVDs of Britten’s operas must be glad they do not have to look over their shoulders at the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2018

BERG Wozzeck (Weigle)

Unseen except in a copiously illustrated booklet, Christof Loy’s staging nevertheless exerts a powerful influence over this audio-only production. Any...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

Through the Eyes of Yuja: A road movie

Having watched this relatively brief (47 minutes) portrait, one is left in no doubt about how very lonely is the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018

Songs for Strings

Donald Fraser has made a very successful career from arrangements since his orchestral rescoring of Marin Marais’s The Bells of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018

Baiba Skride: American Concertos

Baiba Skride has been recording large swathes of the concerto repertory in relatively short order, travelling both along and off...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

WATKINS Flute Concerto. Violin Concerto. Symphony

If music is, indeed, ‘the food of love’, then Huw Watkins’s Flute Concerto (2013) does have ‘excess of it’! I...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

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