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WEINBERG Wir Gratulieren! (Congratulations!)

It’s probably fair to say that Weinberg isn’t best known for his comic gifts. Yet dozens of his film scores...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2021

STRADELLA Il Trespolo tutore (de Carlo)

Previous issues in The Stradella Project, of which this is the sixth, have all been praised in these pages. Il...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021

Lawrence Brownlee & Michael Spyres: Amici E Rivali

At first glance the title ‘Friends and Rivals’ seems to allude to the two tenors, Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2021

MELANI L'empio Punito (Ipata; Quarta)

The extravagant production of L’empio punito (1669) in the Palazzo Colonna was attended by 26 cardinals, numerous princes and ambassadors,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021

GRETRY Richard Coeur de Lion (Niquet)

In Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades the old Countess, recalling her life as a beautiful young woman in Paris,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021

DONIZETTI L'Ange de Nisida (Tingaud)

It’s certainly not every day, week or year that musical archaeology turns up a complete unperformed work from a composer...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2021

Philippe Jaroussky: La vanità del mondo

Never one to rest on his laurels, Philippe Jaroussky has come up with a typically enterprising selection of Italian Baroque...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021

Synergia: Music From Cyprus

This album showcases, poignantly at this time of escalating political tension in the eastern Mediterranean, the multicultural riches of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2021

Song of Beasts: Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Songs

This is a super gift for somebody who loves – or is even curious about – the European Middle Ages....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

James Gilchrist: 100 Years of British Song Vol 1

Two unrecorded offerings by Holst launch what Somm promises will be a three-volume exploration of some lesser-known corners of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2021

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