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PUCCINI Madame Butterfly (Edusei)
This is the second recording for DVD/Blu ray of the Royal Opera’s long-serving 2003 production, though much changed between the...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2025
LEITH Last Days
‘A place where flecks of magic are chipped or hacked from mundanity – where the familiar and domestic are heightened...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024
SCHMIDT Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Berman)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Jonathan Berman
Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
CHAKER Radio Afloat. Vigil
Drawing from numerous genres but free from many of their constrictions, the alt-classical-world-music-jazz pieces coming out of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2024
HARTMANN 'Rediscovered'
It might be construed as ironic were the music of Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) to achieve wider recognition as a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2024
GIPPS Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Gamba)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Martin Owen | Rumon Gamba
The main focus of interest on this third Chandos disc of Ruth Gipps’s orchestral music is the first recording of...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025
ENESCU; String Octets. Aubade
Daniil Bulayev | Maxim Tanichev | Roctet | Soloists of the Davinspiro Camerata
the programmes are utterly different. Roctet, billed as ‘the Netherlands’ first permanent string octet’, place it alongside a Double Quartet...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2025
BOITO Nerone (Cilluffo)
Verdi’s librettist on Otello and Falstaff, Arrigo Boito was also a noted composer. His most famous work, Mefistofele, is still...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025
Welcome Joy: A Celebration of Women’s Voices
Corvus Consort | Freddie Crowley | Louise Thomson
The chemistry of mysticism, a partiality for orientalism and a career teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School for over 30...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2024
DAVIS X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
This is the second recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The first appeared in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023
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