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DAVIDSON Barefoot

In her booklet notes and interviews, Tina Davidson puts an emphasis on the introspective nature of these five beautifully written...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2024

ERKIN; RAVEL; SCHULHOFF String Quartets

Bravo first of all to the Klenke Quartet for having the imagination to pair the Ravel String Quartet neither with...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024

Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul

Only in her late 20s, Russian-born Aigul Akhmetshina has caused a considerable stir of late after what can only be...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2024

MEYERBEER Le Prophète (Elder)

The 21st-century Meyerbeer revival – much talked about, not all that tangible – is so far bearing more fruit on...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2024

LULLY Armide (Dumestre)

Like Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique are working their way through the operas...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2024

LEITH Last Days

‘A place where flecks of magic are chipped or hacked from mundanity – where the familiar and domestic are heightened...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024

LANGGAARD Antikrist (Zilias)

With the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2023 staging of Antikrist, Rued Langgaard’s only opera received arguably its highest-profile production since it...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2024

JANÁČEK The Excursions of Mr Brouček (Kyzlink)

Surreal? Avant-garde? Or just sloppy? In the booklet notes for this new recording of The Excursions of Mr Brouček, annotator...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024

CILEA Gloria (Cilluffo)

If you enjoy Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, you might be pleasantly surprised by its successor, Gloria. That’s no aspersion on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024

Queen of Hearts

The Gesualdo Six, an ensemble of male voices, was formed in Cambridge in 2014 to perform Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2024

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