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Jeanine De Bique: Mirrors
Jeanine De Bique impressed me recently with her assured singing as La Folie in William Christie’s Platée (Harmonia Mundi, 12/21),...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)
Some 55 years after its composition and 25 years since its composer’s death, The Passenger has well and truly arrived....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2022
RAMEAU Achante et Céphise (Kossenko)
The pastorale-héroïque Acante et Céphise – the first name misprinted ‘Achante’ in the composer’s uncorrected first proof of the printed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2022
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Foster)
Following hot on the heels of its recent Fanciulla del West, welcomed in these pages by Mark Pullinger (4/21), Pentatone...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Jones)
This is a restaging of the production by David McVicar that was first seen in 2003, subsequently issued on DVD....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2022
Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3
Anyone who read her interview in January’s Gramophone will have got the message that Elsa Dreisig is a singer who...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
LEONCAVALLO Zazà (Soltész)
Christof Loy is making a habit of turning pandemic theatre to his advantage. In summer 2020 he conjured up a...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2022
HANDEL Arias (Barnaby Smith)
Voces8’s artistic director, countertenor Barnaby Smith, goes solo here with an album of extracts from Handel’s operas and oratorios, along...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
BRIAN Faust (Brabbins)
In his final years, the work of his Havergal Brian most wanted to hear was his fourth opera, Faust. His...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Taliesin’s Songbook
Champions of Welsh music past and present, the Cardiff-based Tŷ Cerdd label gives us a survey of 20th- and 21st-century...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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