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John Holt: Facets Five

John Holt’s eighth recording for Crystal begins with eight pleasant recital pieces before finishing with a chamber music masterwork, Eric...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2024

COPLAND; CRESTON; KAY; PISTON Concertos & Orchestral Suites

The National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic may be an occasional ensemble, tied to annual festivals at the University of Maryland, but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2024

CABANISS Four Elements

Collaborative undertakings for the stage comprise a significant portion of Thomas Cabaniss’s oeuvre – not only operas but dance works...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024

Shades of Romani Folklore

With so many superb young string quartets active on the music scene, it is heartening to realise that the genre...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2024

VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)

Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)

Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)

It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024

PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)

This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)

The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)

Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

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