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Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries (Rachel Barton Pine)

This is the 25th-anniversary reissue of Rachel Barton Pine’s groundbreaking album ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and...

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

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)

I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...

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

JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 (Dunedin Consort)

Remembering their recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (A/14) and violin concertos (4/16), what else are we to expect from John...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

ADÈS Märchentänze (Collon)

On first glance, you crave some meat here. Where’s the main course? If Nicholas Collon’s Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra can...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022

Marina Viotti: A Tribute to Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot led a remarkable life. Born in France to Spanish tenor Manuel García, who created the role of Count...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

Randall Scotting: The Crown - Heroic Arias for Senesino

Senesino (nickname for Francesco Bernardi) set the template for the star castrato with attitude. In contrast to the far more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022

Jodie Devos: Bijoux perdus

Like Marina Viotti’s recording devoted to Pauline Viardot (see overleaf), this new album featuring Jodie Devos is a tribute to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Fuget)

Akin to the proverbial London bus, you wait ages for a new interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse on record, then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022

LULLY Acis et Galatée (Rousset)

Acis et Galatée is the last completed opera in Lully’s distinguished output, but unlike his famous and influential tragédies lyriques...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2022

LEONCAVALLO Zingari (Rizzi)

After Leoncavallo’s Zazà (7/16), Opera Rara continues to mine the nether regions of the verismo alphabet with the same composer’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

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