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VERDI Un ballo in maschera (Janowski)

This is a strange beast: a recording of a Verdi opera performed by a conductor best known for his Wagner,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2023

PUCCINI Il trittico (Welser‑Möst)

Three sets of reservations, appropriately enough, nagged at me as I sat down with this film of Christof Loy’s 2022...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023

HINDEMITH Cardillac (Soltész)

This is, by my reckoning, only the third audio recording of Cardillac, Paul Hindemith’s first full-scale opera, premiered in Dresden...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

HAYDN L’incontro improvviso (Gaigg)

Nearly a century after the 1683 siege of Vienna, with the Ottomans now at a safe distance, Austria was in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

CORIGLIANO The Lord of Cries (Rose)

In the literary world, this opera would be described as a page-turner. Logic seems just out of reach in The...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2023

ATTERBERG Aladin (Alber)

History is full of stage works whose auspicious launch did not translate into frequent revival, Kurt Atterberg’s fourth opera being...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2023

Wonderland

Don’t be fooled by the cartoon cover – you haven’t accidentally bought The King’s Singers’ Disney disc (released back in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Transfigured

Post-Karajan, perhaps, performances of Verklärte Nacht have been getting slower and slower, wringing out ever more juice from its pages,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook

A disc of Shakespeare song-settings – we all know the drill. Except, here, we really don’t. This new recital from...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Anthems Vol 1

During the past 17 years Stephen Layton has nurtured the chapel choir of Trinity College Cambridge into arguably the pre-eminent...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023

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