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LAMPE The Dragon of Wantley

What a surprise! This comic opera, popular in its day, has been languishing as a passing reference in the history...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2022

DONIZETTI La fille du régiment (Spotti)

La fille du régiment, Donizetti’s opéra-comique, receives a Latin American makeover in Luis Ernesto Doñas’s staging for Bergamo’s Donizetti Festival...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022

On This Shining Night: Music For Voice and String Quartet

Roderick Williams teams up with the admirable Coull Quartet for an uncommonly fine account of Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, which,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022

Lux aeterna (The Gesualdo Six)

As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble’s extraordinary...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms (Matthias Goerne)

The transience of human existence is the leitmotif of Matthias Goerne’s latest recital, charting a journey from sleep and oblivion...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

Fatma Said: Kaleidoscope

Fatma Said’s debut album ‘El Nour’ rightly caused a stir on its release in 2020, earning the Egyptian soprano Gramophone...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Hildegard Portraits

This is a Hildegard recital with a twist, the life and work of the saint (canonised in 2012) interpreted not...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson)

Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook has attracted many great pairings of singers in the past. This new recording, however, makes a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2022

SENFL Motets and Songs

I’ve long admired the Regensburg-based ensemble Singer Pur for their egoless music-making. Recent highlights are two sets (also on this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi (Timothy Fallon)

With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2022

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