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MOZART Lucio Silla (Equilbey)

The success of Mozart’s first opera seria, Mitridate, for the ducal theatre in Milan, led immediately to a second commission....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2022

HANDEL Rodelinda (Cummings)

Perhaps it was the superficial similarity to Fidelio – a virtuous wife unwavering in heroic devotion to her husband –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

DORÁTI Der Künder (Fischer-Dieskau)

'Composing conductors are a suspicious lot,’ Antal Dorati remarked in his 1979 memoir Notes from Seven Decades, which placed him...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2022

BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Wellber)

This has taken a few years to hit the shelves. Arnaud Bernard’s staging of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Bryn Terfel: The Verbier Recital

We’re lucky to have several early recordings of Bryn Terfel singing lieder – including a handsome Liederkreis (DG, 5/00) –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

Oh, ma belle brunette

Prolific representations of pastoral life are sometimes dismissed as whimsy, especially when the members of the nobility were masquerading as...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2022

A Meditation: St John Henry Newman

As with all of The Sixteen’s releases, this new one manages to magically bridge the old and the new with...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022

Lux Laetitiae: Splendours of the Marian Cult in Early Renaissance Ferrara

I’ve not always been kind to La Reverdie, but one must salute the remarkable stability of their cast and approach...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2022

Entre Deux Mondes

This is one of those rare recitals that takes one risk after another – with handsome pay-offs in what initially...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2022

Celestial Dawn

Until recently girls had little choice when it came to top-level choristerships. The news that both St John’s, Cambridge, and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

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