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PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)
Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)
This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)
Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Vashegyi)
Leclair’s only commission from the Paris Opéra was a box-office flop, never revived on the public stage until modern times....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
GAZZANIGA L'isola d'Alcina (Ehrhardt)
If you have already heard of Giuseppe Gazzaniga it is probably because his ‘Don Giovanni’ middle act in Il capriccio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
BERTIN Fausto (Rousset)
When Fausto was first performed at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in March 1831, there was much comment in the press,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
BRITTEN War Requiem (including rehearsal sequence. Britten)
Britten’s War Requiem touched a trapped nerve in the collective psyche of post-war Britain, commemorating the war dead with both...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2024
Sandrine Piau: Reflet
This programme explores pre-war Ravel, Koechlin and Britten that happens to sit in the sweetest spots of Piau’s comfort zone,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
'Morning Star’
‘Morning Star’ follows where 2019’s ‘Christmas’ (12/19) led – a festive release of a distinctly grown-up sort, this time taking...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2024
WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder (Joyce DiDonato)
Joyce DiDonato’s performance of ‘Schmerzen’ from the Wesendonck Lieder formed part of her ‘Eden’ album (3/22), a mixed programme crossing...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024
TŮMA Motets. Dixit Dominus. Sinfonia (Válek)
Of the composers who spanned the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of the Classical period in Central Europe,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
SCHÜTZ Schwanengesang (Wilson)
These collections were created 60 years apart at opposite ends of Schütz’s long and distinguished career. His youthful first published...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Cyrille Dubois)
After the Gramophone Award-winning success of his superb complete Fauré (Aparté, 8/22), my expectations for this recording by Cyrille Dubois...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024
SCHUBERT ‘Lieder: Love’s Lasting Power’ (Harriet Burns)
Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have emerged as a significant lieder partnership in recent years, though their Schubert album, surprisingly...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
PÄRT 'Tractus'
Arvo Pärt’s Newman-inspired Littlemore Tractus sets the tone for this disc both musically and thematically. As Kai Kutman’s notes point...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2024
MOZART Requiem (Nelson)
Faultless choral singing in the tiny Ave verum corpus, taken at a flowing (and palpably two-to-the-bar) tempo, augurs well for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)
The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
LUDFORD 'Ymaginacions’
For their second album, La Quintina premiere an unknown Mass by English Renaissance composer Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557), performed by three...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
LANGGAARD Songs (Louise McClelland Jacobsen)
Songs comprise a substantial part of Rued Langgaard’s earlier output, affording an overview of how his music evolved during his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
HOWARD The Anvil
Emily Howard’s choral work The Anvil was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Manchester International Festival in 2019 to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2024
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