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MOZART String Duos

This new recording from Atlantic Canada of Mozart’s magnificent duos for violin and viola delights with a sense of unleashed...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

LANSKY Touch and Go

During his long and fertile career, Paul Lansky (b1944) has explored a vast array of styles and techniques, from computer...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2025

HAGERTY united sounds of america

Mark Hagerty’s united sounds of america is a vivid, compelling collaboration between music and poetry that, while not intended for...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

DANCIGERS; WUNSCH 'Dawn'

As its name indicates, Grand Electric is the grand-piano-meets-electric-guitar duo creation of guitarist Mark Dancigers and pianist Aaron Wunsch. Dancigers...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2025

WOLF-FERRARI Il segreto di Susanna (Krieger)

Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said that a cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure – exquisite, and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2025

WEILL Die sieben Todsünden (Rattle)

Hard on the heels of ‘The Kurt Weill Album’, Joana Mallwitz’s confidently branded yellow label debut (DG, 9/24), LSO Live...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2025

PUCCINI Madame Butterfly (Edusei)

This is the second recording for DVD/Blu ray of the Royal Opera’s long-serving 2003 production, though much changed between the...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2025

HANDEL Lotario (Cremonesi)

Lotario (December 1729) used a libretto adapted from a recent opera by Orlandini that Handel probably heard earlier that year...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

Tales of Song and Sadness

Over a period of around 50 years, important creative alliances were forged between Dutch recorder player, flautist, conductor and early...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

La Comedie humaine: Chansons Balzaciennes

Baritone and conductor Arnaud Marzorati and his ensemble Les Lunaisiens have been specialising for more than a decade now in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2025

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