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WEINBERGER Frühlingsstürme (de Souza)

‘All that will be left of life will be the memory of spring storms’, muses the widow Lydia Pawlowska in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2021

VIVALDI Luce e Ombra

Flautist Grégoire Jeay explains that the trio Ensemble Mirabilia hope to capture Vivaldi’s ‘many contrasting styles – light and dark,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2021

SALIERI Armida (Rousset)

Following their excellent recordings of Salieri’s French operas of the 1780s, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have turned to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2021

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Perez)

Prokofiev, who liked to think of himself as an opera composer, had a habit of setting unlikely source material. Never...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

MEYERBEER Romilda e Costanza (Acocella)

Naxos has clearly taken up the Meyerbeer mantle from Opera Rara. With Il crociato in Egitto and Semiramide (A/06) already...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

HUMPERDINCK Music for the stage

Any recording of any music by Engelbert Humperdinck is to be savoured by his devotees, though we know better than...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021

Catriona Morison: The Dark Night has Vanished

With her rich tone that records as charismatically as Christa Ludwig’s, Catriona Morison achieves inviting surface lustre in this debut...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

Jodie Devos: And Love Said...

Belgian soprano Jodie Devos burst on to the scene two years ago with a debut album on Alpha showcasing Offenbachian...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2021

All Things are Quite Silent

There are a lot of firsts here in a album that blazes a trail on multiple levels. This is the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2021

TAYLOR Flowers for Mrs Harris

This gorgeous piece by Richard Taylor (music and lyrics) and Rachel Wagstaff (book) is a great example of how the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2021

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