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HANDEL Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (La Lira di Orfeo)

This recording of a staged production at Piacenza in October 2020 claims to be a ‘reconstruction and critical edition’ of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021

DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Dumoussaud)

For a quintessentially French opera, there are surprisingly few recordings of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a French orchestra. There...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

Julien Van Mellaerts: Songs of Travel and Home

This disc would be notable if only because it’s the debut recital recording of the much-awarded and much-travelled New Zealand-born...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021

Shall We Gather: American Art Songs

The surprise with this vocal recital is that there aren’t more like it. The selected programme is prompted by pandemic-era...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021

Licht der Welt: A Christmas Promenade (Christiane Karg)

I’m a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to opera singers doing Christmas albums, but Christiane Karg’s new disc...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

À sa guitare (Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia)

Je suis Barbara, je suis Britten … This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs Vol 3

Albion Records’ exploration of Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements of folk song in English with instrumental accompaniment has now reached...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021

R STRAUSS Four Last Songs. Capriccio (Gundula Janowitz)

The uncredited but intimately informed booklet notes to this reissue reference David Bowie’s discerning admiration for the Four Last Songs...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet

These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

PÄRT Stabat mater (Repušić)

Surely not another Pärt compilation! Yes, and a compelling one it is. While it is true that I could probably...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021

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