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SONDHEIM Sweeney Todd

Why are they always trying to drag Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd kicking and screaming into the opera house and concert hall?...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013

MONTEVERDI Orfeo

Any work from the dawn of opera comes with many performance practice decisions but Orfeo, in particular, is heard within...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013

MASSENET Le portrait de Manona

Opera Rara has for many years been promoting invaluable recordings of rare 19th-century operas but this latest issue is rather...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013

HANDEL Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos)

During the 1730s Handel baked three pasticci compiled from his own compositions: Oreste (1734) and Alessandro Severo (1738) were designed...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013

BRITTEN Owen Wingrave

>Owen Wingrave, arguably Britten’s last fully completed opera, is a masterpiece of musical scene-setting. Try the impressionistic interlude, part Berg,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013

Tell me the truth about love…

Half the fun in anthologies comes from seeing what has been chosen and how the programme has been sewn together....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:

Früh

The unique selling point of this disc is its valuable gathering together of early, and often rarely heard, songs by...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2013

English Royal Funeral Music

So here they are again – last year’s Gramophone Recording of the Year winners back with a new disc, parts...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2013

Choirs of Angels: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol 2

It may have been preferable to widen the net for the second volume of music from the Eton Choirbook (all...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013

Black Manhattan Vol 2

All the music documented on this second instalment of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra’s ‘Black Manhattan’ was written before Louis Armstrong...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

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