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GLASS Satyagraha (Anzolini)

How times change! Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s 1979 third opera, was once declared a child of the 1960s with its apparent...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2021

DESTOUCHES Semiramis (Sartre)

This was the eighth of Destouches’s 10 operas and the last of his six tragédies en musique. The libretto was...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2021

CIMAROSA Il Matrimonio Segreto (De Marchi)

First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in February 1792 (almost two months to the day after Mozart’s death), Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2021

ABRAHÁM Ball at the Savoy

When does an operetta become a musical? Paul Abrahám’s 1932 jazz operetta Ball at the Savoy – which opened in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

SCHUMANN Complete Songs (Christian Gerhaher )

It was nearly five years ago that Christian Gerhaher, arguably the finest and most fascinating lieder singer working today, revealed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021

More Honourable Than the Cherubim

For those who love Rachmaninov’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil) and regularly reflect in wonderment at the depth and resonance of Russian...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

Voces8: Infinity

Why do we listen to music? Is it about stimulation or oblivion, medication, meditation or a conversation? The answer seems...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2021

Anita Rachvelishvili: Élégie

Anita Rachvelishvili’s first album (5/18) was a feisty recording of powerhouse mezzo arias in turbocharged readings. Its successor is a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

ZACHARA DE TERAMO Enigma Fortuna (La Fonte Musica. Michele Pasotti)

Forty years ago we all thought that the leading composer around 1400 was Johannes Ciconia, with various people called Zacara...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2021

SCHNITTKE Choir Concerto

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir have already set down Schnittke’s massively challenging Psalms of Repentence (or, better, Penitential Verses –...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2021

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