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PUCCINI Tosca (Gatti)

Florence’s Maggio Musicale used to be one of the great Italian opera houses. Alas no longer. The Fondazione has been...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

HANDEL Theodora (Mehta)

I watched this production from the temporary home of the Theater an der Wien with a mixture of bafflement and...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2025

GRÉTRY La caravane du Caire (Niquet)

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel follow up their excellent recording of Grétry’s Richard Coeur-de-Lion (1/21) with this DVD of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2025

GETTY Goodbye, Mr Chips

Whenever a venerable literary property is reincarnated into another medium, one must initially ask if, why and how it speaks...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2025

Strana armonia d’amore

Founded in 1999 and directed since then by Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris have rapidly expanded their repertory to...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 03/2025

Una poesia muta: Art in Early Cinquecento Venice

This album is the product of a collaboration between the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the radio station SWR to mark an...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2025

The Krasiński Codex: Fifteenth-Century Music from Cracow

Recording the contents of an entire 15th-century manuscript is a huge undertaking. There have been only two such projects as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2025

TRAPANI Noise Uprising

As musical journeys go, Noise Uprising is a unique voyage of discovery, containing plenty of surprises along the way. Drawing...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2025

STROZZI Voices of Longing - Love Songs From 17th Century Venice

Emily Owen and Jenni Harper, discoursing with a trio of superb continuo players at every twist and turn, intermingle responsively...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2025

MARSH A Plastic Theatre

To have one first-class ensemble recording your music may be regarded as fortunate. To assemble no fewer than five on...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2025

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