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WAGNER Die Walküre (Rattle)

All the principals involved in this second instalment of Simon Rattle’s Bavarian Ring in progress have extensive stage experience of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

WAGNER Tannhäuser (Gergiev)

The German regisseur Tobias Kratzer has found an interesting frame story through which to parallel and illustrate the dramatic conflicts...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020

MONTÉCLAIR Jephté (Vashegyi)

This latest collaboration between György Vashegyi’s Hungarian musicians and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is another triumph. Despite...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2020

Avery Amereau: Handel Arias

Call me insular, but I’d not previously heard of Florida contralto Avery Amereau. I’m glad I have now. Her burnt...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020

HANDEL Semele (Gardiner)

Semele is a work that deserves more recordings than it has had. What should by rights be considered the greatest...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2020

ALWYN Miss Julie (Oramo)

How many operas have been recorded more often than they’ve been staged? With the arrival of this superb new account...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020

ADAM Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Rouland)

Adolphe Adam is most familiar to audiences today as the composer of Giselle, the quintessential Romantic ballet, but the majority...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2020

James Gilchrist: Solitude

By sheer coincidence, ‘Solitude’ appears to be tailor-made for mid-2020, though this new disc of music by Purcell, Schubert, Dove...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2020

In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Anthem Vol 2

The name of this album may be familiar. Used by the Dunedin Consort for their release in 2003 with Delphian,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2020

The Hermes Experiment: Here We Are

Rather like the underground laboratory wherein the eponymous scientific experiment took place, The Hermes Experiment’s calm exterior often hides a...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

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