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Russian Spectacular (Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

Surely here was an opportunity to stray a little from the well-trodden path and offer perhaps Mussorgsky’s startling original version...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

JS BACH The Overtures BWV 1066-1069 (Original versions)

In December 2019 Lindsay Kemp called Rinaldo Alessandrini’s recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites perhaps ‘the danciest ever’. There’s a new...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Schiff)

As with Schiff’s Schubert Sonatas and Impromptus for ECM New Series (6/19), so his Brahms concertos, self-directed from a restored...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2021

Beyza Yazgan : To Anatolia

The most familiar groups of composers linked by nationality are probably the ‘Russian Five’ and the French ‘Les Six’. On...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

Archetypes

This very cool collection of tours de force takes a random selection of archetypal themes composed and collaboratively performed by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2021

KRISTINSSON Moonbow

The earliest composition in Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson’s catalogue (at least on his website) is a song for mixed choir from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2021

KANDER dwb (driving while black)

If Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel’s dwb (driving while black) had premiered as scheduled two months before the death of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2021

CREAN The Priestess of Morphine

What makes an opera an opera? Rosśa Crean styles The Priestess of Morphine: A Forensic Study of Marie-Madeleine in the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2021

RAMEAU Les Indes Galandes (Tournet)

Les Indes galantes – ‘The amorous Indies’ – was first staged at the Paris Opéra in 1735. Whether called an...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2021

MOZART Così fan tutte (Mallwitz)

It’s something of a miracle that this production of Così fan tutte took place at all … but then, it...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021

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