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SACRATI La finta pazza (Alarcón)

‘What Song the Syrens sang’, wrote Sir Thomas Browne, ‘or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2022

RAMEAU Les fêtes d’Hébé (Vashegyi)

A quarter of a century since William Christie’s iconic 1997 Erato recording, an alternative take on Les fêtes d’Hébé is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2022

HASSE Caio Fabbricio (Cunningham)

‘GF Handel’, the booklet confidently proclaims, with ‘JA Hasse’ nestling in smaller type below. Don’t get too excited, though. This...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2022

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw (Glassberg)

It wasn’t until almost 40 years after the opera’s Venice premiere and the composer’s own 1954 recording that The Turn...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2022

BOITO Nerone (Kaftan)

The gestation period for Boito’s Nerone must be one of the longest in all opera. He started planning the work...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2022

Isabel Bayrakdarian: La zingarella - Through Romany Songland

Isabel Bayrakdarian has carved out quite a niche with her recorded catalogue, defined by smart programming ideas. There was an...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2022

Revoiced

The combination of small-scale choir and saxophone quartet is a surprising one, though it would take a particularly crabbed purist...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2022

John Matthew Myers: Desiderium

Rarely does a tenor-voice recital succeed while so consciously lacking – perhaps avoiding – the ‘wow’ factor. The programme in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2022

VIVALDI The Great Venetian Mass

‘The Great Venetian Mass’ may look at first like a good old-fashioned liturgical reconstruction of the sort we associate with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Pan's Anniversary

In a letter dated March 6, 1905, Ralph Vaughan Williams accepted a commission from Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club to supply the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2022

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