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FINBERG The Four Seasons of Isolation

The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic affected musicians in many different ways. Some gave virtual recitals over Zoom, others composed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2023

Alburnum

For his third solo album, the dynamic American baritone Brian Mulligan has turned to three 21st-century American composers who are...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2023

STRAVINSKY Mavra TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta (Ioffe)

BSO Recordings gave us no fewer than three winners at last year’s Awards, including Recording of the Year for the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023

RAMEAU Zoroastre (1749 version. Kossenko)

Zoroastre, premiered at the Paris Opéra on December 5, 1749, was the fifth opera – and the first tragedy –...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

PASQUINI L’Idalma, overo Chi la dura la vince (De Marchi)

Idalma (Rome, 1680) has parallels with Don Juan: the womaniser Lindoro keeps a list of his conquests, has deserted Irene...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2023

MOZART La clemenza di Tito (Glassberg)

Nothing hits you with greater force in Opéra de Rouen Normandie’s performance of La clemenza di Tito than the Overture....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2023

MARTINŮ Les larmes du couteau. The Comedy on the Bridge

Martinů’s short one-act operas make for a bright and entertaining double bill, and they receive bright and entertaining performances on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2023

DAVIS X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

This is the second recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The first appeared in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023

CHERUBINI Les Abencérages (Vashegyi)

Who, or what, are Les Abencérages, you might well ask. There’s a clue in the subtitle, which is ‘The Standard...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Vespro di Natale: Christmas Vespers

It is not a new idea to build a Monteverdi Vespers (Venetian) that is not the Monteverdi Vespers (Mantuan), but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023

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