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K SMITH The Arc in the Sky

Kile Smith describes his The Arc in the Sky as a ‘65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied choir’, and, he might have...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

DEAK Symphonic Tales

Narrators, like humour, are notoriously difficult to integrate into musical works. For every successful endeavour – Schoenberg rather had the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

DE CROES La Sonate Égarée

This is so delicious that it’s tempting simply to suggest that you go and buy it. But of course I’ll...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY; PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Haochen Zhang)

This is not an obvious concerto coupling; but in fact there are at least three others, two of them quite...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Jurowski)

A Mahler Fourth as insightful and as individual as we have come to expect from this source. How rarely we...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019

GRIEG Lyric Pieces MENDELSSOHN Lieder Ohne Worte (Kozhukhin)

Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin’s compilation of miniatures...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019

Handel's Queens

This is not the first time Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, the star sopranos Handel engaged for his London operas...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019

VERDI I due Foscari (Repušić)

When Achille De Bassini created the role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari in 1844, he was in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Oren)

The great Italian baritone Leo Nucci is one of music’s indestructibles. How else can one explain a 76-year-old holding spellbound...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Carydis)

This production from last year’s Salzburg Festival has much charm but it is fundamentally so wrong-headed that I hardly know...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2019

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