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MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana (Hengelbrock)

Here’s a Cavalleria rusticana with a difference. Not only do Thomas Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann forces offer historically informed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

CIMAROSA L'Italiana in Londra (Hussain)

Premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in 1779, Cimarosa’s breezy intermezzo comico L’italiana in Londra made his European reputation. Playing on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024

CHARPENTIER Médée (Niquet)

This is only the third commercial sound recording of Médée (1693) – the first to come along in nearly 30...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2024

BORGSTRØM Fiskeren (Boye Hansen)

I’m all for full-scale operas that clock in under 90 minutes. And that’s far from the only good thing about...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

A Gardener’s World : Flowers in Song

It’s appropriate that Alessandro Fisher’s debut on Rubicon should be a recording of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2024

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Retrospect'

Norman Del Mar’s version of In Windsor Forest (the cantata that Vaughan Williams compiled from his opera Sir John in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

TOSTI 'Sogno'

Italian-born Sir Paolo Tosti KCVO (1846-1916) was the toast of Victorian England, singing teacher to the royal family and the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024

STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Asmik Grigorian)

Asmik Grigorian is undeniably one of the most exciting operatic talents on the scene today, as formidable performances as Salome,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

'Richard: Strauss & Wagner'

Nearly three years after I welcomed his fine disc of Strauss songs built around the humorous Krämerspiegel, Op 66 (7/21),...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

STANFORD ‘Cushendall – Irish Song Cycles’

Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

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