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Premiered as long ago as 2004 (although telecast, then pirated, quite early in its life), this production was one of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2021
A lot has changed in the decade since this Artaxerxes was originally released. Ian Page’s Classical Opera Company has become...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
Last year Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo brought together Handel, Haydn and Alessandro Scarlatti in a fascinating exploration of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021
When I first heard Freddie De Tommaso – as Cassio in Otello at Covent Garden – I noted how he...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021
Some of us baked, others did DIY, and most of us managed our daily walks. Mezzo Helen Charlston and baritone...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
Twelve years ago the group Capilla Flamenca, under the late and much-lamented Dirk Snellings, produced a marvellous CD of music...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021
Most names here will be familiar to those who know mid-20th-century music in the UK but not necessarily as art-song...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2021
It’s an evocative title, and the music to go with this Passiontide programme by New York Polyphony is just as...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
The primary claim to fame of Richard Strauss’s Krämerspiegel, the bitingly satirical song-cycle he grudgingly wrote to fulfil a historic...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021
Santa Ratniece (b1977) is a Latvian composer who has taken a recognisably Latvian, harmonic aesthetic to the intersection between notated...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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