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ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia (Scappucci)

This small gem of an opera, first seen in Milan in August 1814, was a collaboration between the 22-year-old Rossini...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

REFICE Cecilia (Grazioli)

For a composer with only footnote status outside his native Italy, Licinio Refice (1883-1954) has friends in lofty places. The...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2023

RAVEL L'Heure espagnole. Bolero (Roth)

It was Igor Stravinsky, ever reliable for a barbed quote, who once described Ravel as ‘the most perfect of Swiss...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023

PUCCINI Turandot (Pons)

Are we slaves to technology? Blinkered by an alternative reality? Even people glued to their tablets and smartphones may find...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023

PORPORA Carlo Il Calvo (Petrou)

Carlo il Calvo (Rome, 1738) was adapted anonymously from Francesco Silvani’s libretto La costanza in trionfo (Venice, 1696), although Boris...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2023

MONTEVERDI Orfeo (Savall)

Ever since Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s and Jürgen Jürgens’s pathbreaking recordings of the 1970s, the challenges of performing Orfeo, arguably the most...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 08/2023

LULLY Acis Et Galatee (Sardelli)

The mortal Acis loves the sea-nymph Galatea, but is murdered in a jealous rage by the Cyclops Polyphemus. Miraculously transformed...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023

HERRMANN Suite from Wuthering Heights. Echoes for Strings

Bernard Herrmann became completely obsessed with his opera Wuthering Heights, convinced that it was the work by which posterity would...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023

GRAUN Silla (De Marchi)

Carl Heinrich Graun owes his career to patron Frederick the Great, whose passion for music in general (and Italian opera...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023

Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Famously bought cheaply at auction as part of a job lot by a Belgian art dealer who thought only a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2023

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