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Vannina Santoni: Par Amour

A familiar figure to French audiences, and much admired in these pages as Mélisande with François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi, 3/22)...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

WELDON The Judgment of Paris (Perkins)

‘In March 1700 the bookseller and publisher Jacob Tonson announced in The London Gazette that “Several Persons of Quality” had...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2025

WEINBERG The Passenger (Gražinytė-Tyla)

Back in 2010 Weinberg was a name know only to a group of enthusiasts. David Pountney’s production of this Auschwitz...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

MASSENET Grisélidis (Zeitouni)

Massenet’s reputation for writing safe, middlebrow operas in the wake of Manon and Werther takes unexpected turns in this new...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025

DESMARET/CAMPRA Iphigénie en Tauride (Niquet)

Henry Desmarets had several tragédies en musique to his name before embarking on Iphigénie en Tauride, to a text by...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2025

BIZET Djamileh. Vasco de Gama. Cantates. Musique chorale

Issued ahead of the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death in June, this remarkable Bru Zane set traces his compositional development...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

ANTHEIL Venus in Africa

Here’s a rarity: the first and (as far as I can ascertain) only recording of Venus in Africa, an opera...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025

Wisdom & Strength: Contemporary Sacred Choral Music

This album belongs to that interesting genus of recordings in which liturgy and sacred music are brought together to recreate...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2025

‘Terra Mater’

I love a good concept album and this one is simultaneously thoughtful, fun and prescient. Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman (Greta...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2025

My Heart’s in the Highlands

Here’s something different: an imaginative programme celebrating God’s own country in its own words and music. And the whole project...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2025

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