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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5 (Andrew Wan)

Violinist Andrew Wan and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin began their Analekta recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2021

Hera Hyesang Park: I am Hera

My only live experience of Juilliard-trained Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park was at the final of the 2014 Operalia competition...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2021

Nathalie Stutzmann: Contralto

In an age that set a premium on sheer vocal brilliance, female contraltos were routinely overshadowed by preening castratos and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2021

WEINBERGER Frühlingsstürme (de Souza)

‘All that will be left of life will be the memory of spring storms’, muses the widow Lydia Pawlowska in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2021

VIVALDI Luce e Ombra

Flautist Grégoire Jeay explains that the trio Ensemble Mirabilia hope to capture Vivaldi’s ‘many contrasting styles – light and dark,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2021

SALIERI Armida (Rousset)

Following their excellent recordings of Salieri’s French operas of the 1780s, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have turned to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2021

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Perez)

Prokofiev, who liked to think of himself as an opera composer, had a habit of setting unlikely source material. Never...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

MEYERBEER Romilda e Costanza (Acocella)

Naxos has clearly taken up the Meyerbeer mantle from Opera Rara. With Il crociato in Egitto and Semiramide (A/06) already...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

HUMPERDINCK Music for the stage

Any recording of any music by Engelbert Humperdinck is to be savoured by his devotees, though we know better than...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021

Catriona Morison: The Dark Night has Vanished

With her rich tone that records as charismatically as Christa Ludwig’s, Catriona Morison achieves inviting surface lustre in this debut...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

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