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GOUNOD Faust (Matvejeff)

The popularity of Gounod’s Faust in the half-century or so since its unveiling was such that New York’s Metropolitan Opera...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

GOLDSCHMIDT Beatrice Cenci (Debus)

Completed in 1950, Beatrice Cenci was one of five operas commissioned to mark the Festival of Britain in 1951. Only...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2019

CASELLA La donna serpente (Noseda)

What happened to the once flourishing muse of Italian opera between Turandot (1926, a date now regarded as a watershed...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2019

Magdalena Kožená: Soirée

Don’t turn up empty-handed of an evening chez Rattle. While a bottle of red wine and a bouquet of flowers...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2019

O Gemma Clarissima: Music in praise of St Catherine

St Catharine of Alexandria, blessed patron saint of (among others) scholars, girls, wheelwrights and hat-makers, the ‘brightest jewel’ herself, is...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2019

Magnificat (Nethsingha)

He may be a church music insider, but while Andrew Nethsingha has been advancing the 70-year-old qualities embodied by this...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Bostridge & Adès)

It’s over 15 years since Ian Bostridge released his EMI recording of Schubert’s final song-cycle and the intervening years have...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BRAHMS Vier Ernste Gesänge (Finley & Drake)

Gerald Finley is never an artist, one feels, to let himself be rushed, allowing his interpretations to mellow and mature...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

RAUTAVAARA Vigilia

Rautavaara’s All-Night Vigil was written for two services at Helsinki’s Orthodox Cathedral, the first on August 29, 1971, the feast...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019

PURCELL Royal Welcome for King Charles II Vol 2

Harry Christophers presents two odes (neither of them ‘Welcome Songs for Charles II’), three diverse sacred anthems, a couple of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2019

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