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Organ Music in New England (Justin J Murphy-Mancini)

This album has been recorded to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2025

WULLIMAN Escape Rites

In 2023 the American violinist Austin Wulliman – best known for his membership of the essential contemporary ensemble, the Jack...

Reviewed by Jennifer Gersten in issue: 06/2025

LEVIN Silk Apples

For her second album, Rami Levin offers an anthology of instrumental works and songs composed across two decades as an...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2025

Eleonora Buratto: Indomita

‘A fitting description of me’ is how Eleonora Buratto describes the title of her debut recital in a booklet note,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2025

VERDI Simon Boccanegra (original 1857 version. Elder)

All lovers of Verdi will relish this excellent studio recording of the first version of Simon Boccanegra. Commissioned by the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2025

TIPPETT New Year (Brabbins)

Towards the end of 1984, when Michael Tippett was about to celebrate his 80th birthday, I wrote in an essay...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2025

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin (Altinoglu)

When it comes to farce, fantasy and fairy tale, Laurent Pelly is such a gifted director: his ‘giant haystacks’ L’elisir...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2025

STRAVINSKY Le rossignol (Roth)

The coloratura twittering of ‘Ah, joie, emplis mon coeur’ from Stravinsky’s miniature opera Le rossignol was a highlight of Sabine...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nelsons)

Theodor Adorno once described a true performance as ‘a copy of a non-existent original’. It is tempting to think that...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 05/2025

PICCINI Son regina e sono amante (Rosa Feola)

A candidate for the most prolific opera composer of his day – and there was plenty of competition – Niccolò...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2025

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