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GOUNOD Mireille (Minkowski)

‘My heart cannot change’, sings the heroine of Gounod’s 1864 opera. Put baldly, that is the fixed premise of this...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2021

GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Live highlights. Alsop)

It always seems to be two steps forward, one step back for Porgy and Bess. For those present at the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2021

CORIGLIANO The Ghosts of Versailles (Colaneri)

Thirty years after its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, The Ghosts of Versailles has come home in more than a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Janowski)

The vagaries forced upon recording and performing schedules by the coronavirus pandemic have sometimes produced some happy accidents. In the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2021

Kateřina Knězikova: Phidyle

Czech soprano Kateřina KněŽíková is clearly a singer to watch. She sang the title-role in Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne earlier...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2021

In Memoria Eterna: A Spiritual Vigil For The New Century

Much like the new Gothic Voices album (see page 66), this rolls back the years in more ways than one....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2021

Gloria a Venezia!

Flanders and Italy – two nations bound tightly together in music, as Adrien Mabire and his Mercenaires argue in this...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2021

Gothic Voices: Echoes of an Old Hall

This remarkable album returns Gothic Voices fully to the form of their Christopher Page years. That is not intended as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2021

Brabant 1653

So what happened in Brabant in 1653 then? The pertinent answer here is that Carmelites seeking refuge after the banning...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2021

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin. Schwanengesang. Winterreise (Christoph Prégardien)

In the vast Schubert lieder discography, one looks to Fritz Wunderlich for mystique, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for authority and Ian Bostridge...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

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