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BECK Requiem (Scott)

Composers grapple with the subject of death in myriad ways, most directly through settings of the Requiem Mass or variations...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2024

ZEMLINSKY Eine florentinische Tragödie (Hahn. Albrecht)

There’s something grimly irresistible about Zemlinsky’s short and sharp Eine florentinische Tragödie (premiered in 1917). Based on Oscar Wilde’s fragmentary...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024

ROSSINI Ermione (Fogliani)

This is the best recording we have yet had of Ermione, Rossini’s Classically inspired masterwork derived from Racine’s Andromaque, the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

Marina Viotti - Mezzo Mozart

Following her examination of music associated with Pauline Viardot (11/22), Marina Viotti gives us Mozart arias, operatic and sacred, for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024

MONDONVILLE Le carnaval du Parnasse (Kossenko)

Le carnaval du Parnasse (1749) was so popular that it notched up 35 performances in two months, and audiences at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

DVOŘÁK Rusalka (Bychkov)

This is the second DVD of Rusalka in three years to feature Asmik Grigorian in the title-role, and in many...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024

DONIZETTI Alfredo il grande (Rovaris)

Hard on the heels of the Bergamo Festival’s memorable 2022 bicentenary realisation of Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina (4/24), we have...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

BRIAN The Cenci (Kelleher)

As Martin Anderson, founder of Toccata Classics, comments in his introductory note, Brian’s one-time reputation as ‘the most prolific symphonist...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Echo Vocal Ensemble - Innocence

If you’re in search of an album of choral music that embraces the rich diversity and encyclopaedic range of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende in Concert

This sounds like an enjoyable concert to have attended. Two of today’s brightest soprano stars – both friends and rivals...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

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