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BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music

Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022

ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works

Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022

Rivales

This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel

The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!

The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Trinks)

For many years I’ve been trying to persuade people that The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev’s best opera. The others have...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2022

NEUWIRTH Orlando (Pintscher)

Filmed during its opening run, Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando was the first full‑length opera by a female composer to be performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2022

MOZART Così fan tutte (Mehta)

Two productions of Così fan tutte by Sven-Eric Bechtolf have already appeared on DVD: from Zurich, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

DONIZETTI 'The Three Queens'

Sondra Radvanovsky became the first soprano to sing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Elisabetta (in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022

BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Pappano)

One of the most eagerly awaited productions of the 2019‑20 season at Covent Garden was this Fidelio, with Antonio Pappano...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

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