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RAMEAU Platée (Christie)

Rameau’s Platée was described in its time as a ballet bouffon, an example of the kind of ambiguous, seemingly ad...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2021

MASSENET Thaïs (Hussain)

Despite its luscious music, Massenet’s Thaïs doesn’t get many stagings, probably because directors have a hard time taking the plot...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler (de Billy)

I vividly recall the first time I heard the great (albeit brief) Alleluia Duet at the close of Tableau 6...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

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

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