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Arias of Love & Sorrow (Gevorg Hakobyan)
Gevorg Hakobyan is a name new to me but, as this album suggests, he is clearly a fine singer: a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2023
Verdi Choruses (Teatro alla Scala)
In 1994, when Riccardo Muti was inducted into the Cavalieri di Verdi by Parma’s prestigious Club dei 27, he noted...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023
TAFRESHIPOUR The Doll Behind the Curtain
The Doll Behind the Curtain, a two act, 70-minute chamber opera by Danish-Iranian composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour, was first seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023
BOLOGNE SAINT-GEORGES L’amant Anonyme
The life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is the stuff of which films are made. Born in 1745, his...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2023
MASCAGNI L'amico Fritz (Frizza)
This will come as a novelty to many people. Friend Fritz has been successfully revived in London by Opera Holland...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2023
LORTZING Der Waffenschmied (The Armorer of Worms)
Pity Albert Lortzing. Sacked from his theatre post in Leipzig, he re-established himself in Vienna only to be forced out...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2023
A Watchful Gaze
Hot on the heels of The Sixteen’s acclaimed recording with Fretwork of the Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (11/22) comes a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023
Julia Bullock: Walking in the Dark
Julia Bullock may have decided to call the album ‘Walking in the Dark’ but the soprano’s musical prowess, interpretative skills...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2023
Traces
In an era of chunk able, bitesize, hyperlinked, free-associative streaming, it’s lovely to come across a proper recital. The individual...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2023
Susan Narucki: This Island
‘This Island’ began as a literary odyssey by soprano Susan Narucki, yielding significant musical discoveries in songs by mostly unknown...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023
Reforming Hymns
Listening to this recital I am reminded of a garbled quotation misattributed to Paul Klee, describing drawing as ‘taking a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023
Passacalle de La Follie
Regular collaborators Philippe Jaroussky and Christina Pluhar join forces again for a French Baroque entertainment exploring airs de cour and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023
Randall Scotting: Lovesick
Randall Scotting is an American countertenor who stepped in at short notice to replace Tim Mead when Covent Garden mounted...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2023
Alla Milanese
This well-structured recital considers a well-represented idiom (the genesis of the Baroque style in northern Italy) from an unfamiliar standpoint....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023
TÜÜR Canticum Canticorum Caritatis
This is a gorgeously sung collection of Tüür’s choral music, beginning with a setting of the Trisagion, used in services...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023
STRAVINSKY Les Noces (1919) RAVEL Bolero
This account of Les noces marks the recording debut of the complete work in its 1919 instrumentation that was supposedly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Rachel Willis-Sørensen)
For her second recording for Sony, Rachel Willis-Sørensen opts for Strauss, the composer with whom she is probably most closely...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023
MOZART Requiem PAISIELLO Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon
‘Mozart Requiem*’, says the cover, the asterisk leading to the rubric ‘Version Paris, 1804’. Thirteen years after Mozart’s death and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
GRIGORJEVA Music For Male-Voice Choir
The Ukrainian composer Galina Grigorjeva (b1962) has always had a natural affinity for the voice, and in particular choral writing....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023
BOULANGER, N & L Les Heures Claires (the Complete Songs)
Despite herself, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) is increasingly established as a composer. She was known to describe her youthful pieces as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023
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