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PICKER Opera Without Words. The Encantadas

Tobias Picker’s Opera Without Words is a brilliantly colourful concerto for orchestra in which the purely instrumental voices are taken...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2020

BRAHMS Complete works for violin and piano (Christoph Schickedanz)

There is no shortage of recordings of Brahms’s complete sonatas for violin and piano by artists legendary and otherwise. And...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020

Aaron Tindall: Yellowbird

The tuba is often typecast as a supporting player at the bottom of the orchestra or as oom-pah champion in...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020

VINCI Gismondo, re di Polonia (Pastuszka)

Gismondo re di Polonia (Rome, 1727) depicts an entirely fictitious title-hero’s multiple acts of clemency towards the rebellious Lithuanian duke...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020

SAINT-SAËNS Le Timbre d’argent (Roth)

‘It’s not an opera any more, it’s a nightmare’, Saint-Saëns wrote in 1880, when faced with a request for a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2020

PUCCINI Il Tabarro (Galli)

Now that Suor Angelica has reclaimed a place in audience hearts, Il tabarro is cast as the underrated third of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2020

Magic Mozart (Equilbey)

Dubbed ‘a magical cabaret’ by conductor Laurence Equilbey, this is the album of a theatrical performance that, poignantly, was due...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

MAZZOLI Proving Up

Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up is one of the most successful and striking of a new generation of American operas. It...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2020

MASSENET Don César de Bazan (Romano)

A word first about presentation. Don César de Bazan was staged in 2016 by Les Frivolités Parisiennes. This is a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2020

LULLY Armide (1778. Niquet)

Armide was the last of Lully’s collaborations with the librettist Philippe Quinault. It was staged at the Paris Opéra in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2020

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