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ORDWAY The Outer Edge of Youth

I’d describe the music of Scott Ordway’s quite beautiful 2020 choral opera The Outer Edge of Youth as a blend...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Maestrino Mozart: Airs d’opéra d’un jeune génie

Marie-Eve Munger’s new recording is a tour de force of scholarship and artistry. The Canadian soprano has collected arias and...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2022

BRINK Utility Music

For his first stand-alone release, Julian Brink has repurposed and reorchestrated an incomplete score for an unfinished film. Utility Music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2022

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

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