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WOLF-FERRARI Il segreto di Susanna (Krieger)

Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said that a cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure – exquisite, and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2025

WEILL Die sieben Todsünden (Rattle)

Hard on the heels of ‘The Kurt Weill Album’, Joana Mallwitz’s confidently branded yellow label debut (DG, 9/24), LSO Live...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2025

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

HANDEL Lotario (Cremonesi)

Lotario (December 1729) used a libretto adapted from a recent opera by Orlandini that Handel probably heard earlier that year...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

Tales of Song and Sadness

Over a period of around 50 years, important creative alliances were forged between Dutch recorder player, flautist, conductor and early...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

La Comedie humaine: Chansons Balzaciennes

Baritone and conductor Arnaud Marzorati and his ensemble Les Lunaisiens have been specialising for more than a decade now in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2025

ZELENKA Missa Gratias agimus tibi

Bohemian double-bass player Zelenka acted as de facto Hofkapellmeister at the Dresden court’s Roman Catholic chapel from the start of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

VIVALDI Dixit Dominus. Magnificat (Prandi)

It’s hard to believe that the Vivaldi project is three-quarters through, it has seemed so everlasting, so generous and so...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025

F SCARLATTI Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni

Francesco Scarlatti worked as a violinist in his older brother Alessandro’s orchestra at the viceroyal court of Naples for seven...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

Palestrina Revealed; Palestrina The Golden Renaissance

Both these recordings were done at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak, by English mixed choral ensembles who perform in a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2025

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