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VIVALDI Il Bajazet (Sardelli)

Among Vivaldi’s operas, Bajazet (or Il Tamerlano) is having a bit of a moment. In 2020 Ottavio Dantone recorded it...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

SALIERI Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari (Rousset)

Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari had its roots in librettist Giovanni Battista Casti’s thinly veiled satire Il poema tartaro (1783),...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2025

ROSSINI Adina (Matheuz)

Adina, Rossini’s last one-act opera, is an interesting outlier among his 39 stage works. An unusual commission only partly completed...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2025

RAMEAU Platée (Tournet)

Platée is a potentially tricky opera to put on in today’s climate: as Loïc Chahine’s booklet note tells us, Rameau’s...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2025

PUCCINI Le Villi (Repušić)

This new Le Villi from Munich, it should be said at the outset, is the finest recording of Puccini’s first...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2025

PROKOFIEV War and Peace (Jurowski)

The bold red DVD cover lists the main contributors in the same font size: the composer, title, three lead singers,...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 07/2025

BARTÓK Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (Canellakis)

The psychological chess game that is Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is so open-ended – who wins? who loses? – that many...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2025

Veni Creator Spiritus - Second Vespers of the Solemnity of Pentecost

Here is a sumptuous feast of Pentecostal music in its truest form: a wholesome programme of plainsong or plainsong-infused music...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2025

Orchestral Anthems Vol 2: Bairstow, Elgar, Ireland, Stanford

Following the great success of his first disc of English church anthems in orchestral guise (8/23), Benjamin Nicholas and the...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 07/2025

Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti

Carlo Vistoli and Hugh Cutting make for superb duet partners and keen communicators on this new album of Baroque arias,...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2025

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