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JS BACH The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

In 2002 Fretwork garnered deserved praise for their viol consort version of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Many fine solo...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2013

Sempre libera

Ritzily presented in rock-style black cover with fold-out insert and plentiful glamour photos, this not-so-common CD from Norwegian Opera forces...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

Arias for Caffarelli

Caffarelli sang in London for only one season (1737/38), and neither of his Handelian roles is represented in Franco Fagioli’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013

Nino Machaidze: Arias & Scenes

A star presence and an increasingly brilliant vocalist, Nino Machaidze has still some distance to go before she is a...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2013

Wagner In Switzerland

Second things first: if there was a CD cover and booklet of the year award, this release would walk it....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

WAGNER Das Liebesverbot

Would it matter if the 23-year-old Wagner – nothing if not impulsive – had destroyed all copies of his ‘comic...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2013

Jonas Kaufmann: The Verdi Album

Accolades first: there are few tenors around today who could have pulled off such a repertoire hop with such a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

Lucia Aliberti: Early Verdi Arias

Though Verdi’s creative lifetime is one of the great artistic arcs in opera, his unmistakable voice was there from the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2013

ROSSINI Semiramide

Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with which it shares certain plot archetypes, Semiramide is rarely played complete. Yet when it is, as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2013

PROKOFIEV The Gambler

The vivid stories of Tolstoy’s exploits as a gambler provide real-life evidence of why gambling is such a recurrent theme...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2013

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