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TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart. Tchaikovsky songs staged by Christoph Loy
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
STANFORD Shamus O'Brien (Parry)
Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024
ROSSINI Le Siège de Corinthe (Abbado)
Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024
PERGOLESI Livietta e Tracollo (Mealy)
Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)
I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)
‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland (Roderick Williams)
A warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024
Sacred Treasures of Venice
This classically conceived and executed recital gives us a few of the usual suspects (the two Gabrielis and Monteverdi) but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
Palimpsest
It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
Brindley Sherratt: Fear No More
As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Ruby Hughes: End of my Days
Soprano Ruby Hughes’s previous album, ‘Echo’ (1/23), focused mainly on Baroque and contemporary repertoire, with occasional nods towards folk music....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
TIPPETT A Child of Our Time (Davis)
This is the first new recording of Tippett’s wartime masterpiece since Colin Davis’s LSO Live version of 2007 and it...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
Schumann in English Vol 1
Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
PORPORA Music for the Venetian Ospedaletto
Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024
MOZART; STRAUSS Lieder (Sabine Devieilhe)
Lieder recitals such as this are a reminder of what’s often missing in others: hallmarks include clean vocalism, unaffected treatment...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2024
Gershwin Rhapsody
Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2024
ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius (McCreesh)
A culmination of his choral essays in symphony (The Black Knight), oratorio (The Light of Life) and dramatic cantata (King...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2024
BRUMEL Earthquake Mass (Schmelzer)
By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
BRIGGS Hail, gladdening light & other works
In July 2022 the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge travelled to Paris to record in the church of Saint-Eustache...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Mass in B Minor (McGegan)
I admire many recordings by Nicholas McGegan, particularly his volumes of Scarlatti cantatas with Arcadian Academy (Conifer, 6/97) and his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2024
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