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BENDA Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

Georg Anton (né Jiří Antonín) Benda (1722‑95) is perhaps best known today for Mozart’s approval of his melodramas – musical...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW21

Michael Spyres: Baritenor

I challenge you to listen to Figaro’s ‘Largo al factotum’ on this new album from Erato ‘blind’. You would hear...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21

Raffi Besalyan: The Sound of Black and White

Pairing works by Khachaturian and Gershwin symbolises pianist Raffi Besalyan’s journey from growing up in Armenia to becoming a United...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021

LAITMAN Are Women People?

Lori Laitman (b1955) is one of America’s most prolific art-song composers, with an impressive catalogue of recordings from several labels,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021

DVORÁK The Late Symphonies (Bernard)

Dvořák’s symphonies are well represented in the recording catalogue, with multiple performances – especially of the late symphonies – featuring...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2021

The City of Tomorrow: Blow

The City of Tomorrow are a pioneering wind quintet who like to explore ‘physical movement and spatial relationships’ (aspects not...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021

VERDI Simon Boccanegra (Luisi)

This new film of Simon Boccanegra captures what’s only Christian Gerhaher’s second Verdi role (after Posa in Don Carlo) and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021

MESSAGER Passionnément (Blunier)

We owe this performance of Passionément to Covid 19, as it happens. Bru Zane’s original intention was to give us...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2021

MAYR Elena (Hauk)

‘Un morceau de génie’ was Stendhal’s verdict on Elena, triumphantly premiered in Naples in January 1814. Like Fidelio, whose final...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

GOUNOD La reine de Saba (Rose)

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Odyssey Opera specialises in mining the operatic archives to perform rarely heard works. Recent years have...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

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