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FAURÉ Complete Songs (Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës)

Here’s a delicious treat that should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating. Complete sets of Gabriel Fauré’s songs are...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Jordan Bak: Impulse

For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2022

SUMMER Hamlet

The American composer Joseph Summer (b1956) is no stranger to opera, having written several comic operas early in his career,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

REYNOLDS Violin Works (Gabriela Díaz)

For two minutes one hears an unaccompanied violin playing jagged short phrases, upwardly slithering long lines and discreetly deployed double-stops....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

BIDDINGTON Music from Torrens Road: Orchestral Works

I am prepared to bet that New Zealand-born composer Eric Biddington (b1953) is as unknown to the majority of this...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

JS BACH Partitas (Eleonor Bindman)

Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

WAGNER Parsifal (Wellber)

Filmed at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo shortly before Covid struck in early 2020, this Parsifal represents one of the last productions...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022

TESORI Blue

While themes of racial discrimination, injustice and racially motivated violence have simmered under the surface of the American musical theatre...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2022

SAINT-SAËNS Henry VIII (Rose)

First performed at the Paris Opéra in 1883, Henry VIII was one of the works, along with Étienne Marcel (1879)...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2022

KORNGOLD Die tote Stadt (Franck)

This release lifts the audio from the DVD of Kasper Holten’s production of Korngold’s opera released by Opus Arte in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022

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