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ABEL 'Spectrum'

Mark Abel continues to demonstrate his versatility in the works on the newest Delos release of his music, ‘Spectrum’, a...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2022

Konstantin Krimmel: Zauberoper

Premiered at the suburban Theater auf der Wieden in 1789, Paul Wranitzky’s Oberon fuelled the Viennese appetite for ‘magic operas’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022

Bruno de Sá: Roma travestita

This solo debut doesn’t so much throw down the gauntlet as hurl it into the listener’s face. Without so much...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

VERDI Gustavo III (Abbado )

‘World Premiere on Video’, proclaims the cover, which is I suppose strictly true, but one shouldn’t get too excited. What...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2022

ROMITELLI An Index of Metals

Fausto Romitelli died of cancer at the young age of 41 after inventing a brilliantly distinctive post-spectralist style. Romitelli’s music...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 12/2022

RAMEAU Le retour d’Astrée. Les Sybarites (de Camboulas)

Inviting and informative notes by Benoît Dratwicki and Sylvie Bouissou set a lovely scene: it’s 1745, and King Louis XV...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

MONTEVERDI Orfeo (Savall)

If there’s nothing really wrong with this Orfeo, directed by Pauline Bayle and conducted by Jordi Savall at Paris’s Opéra-Comique...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Plewniak)

Like Rameau, Leclair had a well-established reputation in other spheres before he ventured into opera. Known as ‘the French Corelli’,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2022

HANDEL Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Bolton)

There’s an unexpected opening to this Giulio Cesare, recorded in 2021 at the Theater an der Wien: a brief recitative...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

BLECH Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Ward)

Record collectors have never entirely forgotten Leo Blech (1871-1958), the Aachen-born, Berlin-based conductor of a generation whose careers were derailed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

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