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J HALL Songs 'Bold Beauty' (Molly Fillmore)
The title of this album of songs by Juliana Hall refers to a poetry set that became Cameos, one of...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2021
DEMSKE Journey for One (after Schubert's Winterreise)
The unwary might assume that Hilary Demske’s latest album is a transcription or reworking of Schubert’s great song-cycle, omitting the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye BARTÓK from 44 Duos for Violin (High Low Duo)
When played on two electric guitars, the Mother Goose suite sounds less like Ravel transcribed than an Ennio Morricone score...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Véronique Gens: Passion
A couple of years ago, Alpha issued ‘L’opéra des opéras’ (4/19), a new pasticcio made up of airs and other...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021
Anna Netrebko: Amata dalle tenebre
Anna Netrebko’s new recital is about love and emotional darkness, heroines in extremis and confrontations with mortality, which takes her...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021
George Gagnidze: Opera Arias
Audiences in the UK will have had limited opportunities to see George Gagnidze perform. There was a minor role in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021
J STRAUSS II Waldmeister (Salvi)
It’s always nice to put an operetta to an overture. Johann Strauss’s Waldmeister (1895) was a moderate success in its...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021
SAINT-SAËNS La princesse jaune (Hussain)
Premiered at the Opéra-Comique 1872, in a double bill with Bizet’s Djamileh, La princesse jaune was the first of Saint-Saëns’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021
JOMMELLI Il Vologeso (Page)
Il Vologeso was composed towards the end of Jommelli’s time as Ober-Kapellmeister at the court of the Duke of Württemberg....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021
HOFMANNSTHAL Jedermann (Ensemble 013)
The irony would not have been lost on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, inveterate snob and Anglophile, that his Freudian updating of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
GLASS Akhnaten (Kamensek)
Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, priests, ceremony, death and … juggling? Is this a Regietheater staging of Aida set in a circus?...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021
BERNSTEIN Candide (Alsop)
Absence doesn’t make the heart grow any fonder of this performance. I saw it live in 2018 and it was...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021
BELLINI I Puritani (Orbelian)
As Delos’s gushing booklet note makes clear, this new release of Bellini’s swansong is focused around its two American leads,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2021
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
This might be the most serene apocalypse you’ll hear. In ‘Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene’, the soprano Renée Fleming reflects...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2021
Josquin's legacy (The Gesualdo Six)
This is an inventive piece of programming, combining the very well known and the nearly obscure: aside from Ockeghem’s Intemerata...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2021
Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia
Whisper it quietly for now, but Emily D’Angelo is already well on the way to becoming the complete singer. Her...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2021
Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
Well, this is rather gorgeous. The ‘Adriatic Voyage’ of this collaboration between Rory McCleery’s Marian Consort and Bojan Čičić’s Illyria...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2021
RESPIGHI Songs (Ian Bostridge)
Ian Bostridge and Ottorino Respighi are two names I never imagined would be in the same sentence, much less the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2021
PÄRT Passio
While one might well question the need for another recording of Passio, Pärt’s monumental setting of the Passion and death...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2021
MOZART Complete Masses, Vol 1 (Poppen)
As far as Mozart’s Masses are concerned, Naxos comes rather late to the party, waiting until its 30th birthday before...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021
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