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Marina Rebeka: Elle

Marina Rebeka turns to French arias for her latest recital, an engaging, if at times uneven disc, in which both...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2020

WOLF-FERRARI Die vier Grobiane (Schirmer)

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, the son of a glamorous Venetian mother and a Bavarian artist father, produced several estimable hits during his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020

WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks)

This is the visual side of the CD release I reviewed last November (Capriccio). The control, order and purpose of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2020

WAGNER Die Walküre (Pappano)

The history of performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle at London’s Covent Garden Opera House has been an enigmatic one. Artistic...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2020

PURCELL The Fairy Queen (McCreesh)

The dramatic function of Purcell’s music within Thomas Betterton’s extravagant adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not as tenuous...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020

OFFENBACH Les contes d’Hoffmann (Rizzi)

Hoffmann is a contemporary artist with stubble and a man-bun. A photographer, perhaps – screen prints and collages of his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2020

MORLACCHI Tebaldo e Isolina (Fogliani)

Francesco Morlacchi doesn’t exactly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his contemporary, Gioachino Rossini. Both composed a Barbiere di Siviglia – Morlaccchi’s actually...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020

LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Galli)

It might seem strange that, six months after releasing a Cavalleria rusticana from Florence’s Maggio Musicale (10/19), Dynamic should be...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020

GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Robertson)

As a souvenir of a great night in the theatre this attractively designed own-label Metropolitan Opera release merits a warm...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2020

HANDEL Music for the Carmelite Vespers

This problematically titled album explores numerous composers who participated in the annual feast of the Madonna del Carmine (July 16)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2020

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