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MERCADANTE Didone abbandonata (De Marchi)

No 18th-century Italian opera composer worth his salt could resist Didone abbandonata, the libretto that made Pietro Metastasio’s name. With...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

Duel: Porpora and Handel in London

The existence of two competing Italian opera companies in London during the mid-1730s is a story that is sometimes told...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

Simone Kermes: Mio caro Händel

Call me jaded, but in a saturated marketplace any new disc of Handel arias needs careful planning. Here we have...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

DENNEHY The Last Hotel

In hotels things can fall apart. Dramas from Psycho to Peep Show have used hotel rooms as an outer expression...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

BARBER Vanessa (Hrůša)

Since it was unveiled at last year’s Glyndebourne Festival, Keith Warner’s handsome and perceptive staging of Barber’s Vanessa has probably...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

ARNE The Judgment of Paris

Arne’s The Judgement of Paris, about the notorious mythological beauty contest that eventually provoked the Trojan War, was first performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

John Williams: Vivaldi etc

What a delight is this sixth and latest release from John Williams’s own JCW Recordings. Indeed, it takes me right...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019

Melvyn Tan: Miroirs

For his latest solo CD, Melvyn Tan offers works by Ravel alongside pieces by other composers that somehow mirror the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

Rebecca Maurer: Haydn and his London disciples

The piano is a Broadwood from 1816, the two sonatas works composed during Haydn’s visits to London for such an...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

Rupert Boyd: The Guitar

It may seem curious that of the 10 works (counting the Brouwer Estudios sencillos – ‘Simple Studies’ – as two,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

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