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TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart. Tchaikovsky songs staged by Christoph Loy

Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024

STANFORD Shamus O'Brien (Parry)

Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024

ROSSINI Le Siège de Corinthe (Abbado)

Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024

PERGOLESI Livietta e Tracollo (Mealy)

Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024

MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)

I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)

‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024

Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland (Roderick Williams)

A warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024

Sacred Treasures of Venice

This classically conceived and executed recital gives us a few of the usual suspects (the two Gabrielis and Monteverdi) but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024

Palimpsest

It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

Brindley Sherratt: Fear No More

As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024

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