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LEHÁR Die lustige Witwe (Malwitz)

The Merry Widow wasn’t born a billionairess, and before Lehár’s masterpiece was a worldwide smash – and long before it...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019

KAMINSKY As One

This is really rather good. Styled a chamber opera, As One (2014) is also a sequence of 15 songs (with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019

FLURY A Florentine Tragedy; The Death of Sappho (Mann)

Puccini and Busoni were among the composers who thought about setting Oscar Wilde’s steamy play A Florentine Tragedy as an...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

DONIZETTI Il Castello di Kenilworth (Frizza)

Bel canto fans talk in reverent terms about Donizetti’s ‘Tudor trilogy’, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux. Beverly Sills...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

CAVALLI L'Ipermestra (Fentross)

Released in the last couple of months, this striking pair of Cavalli recordings were both actually made more than a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

VIVALDI Musica sacra per alto. Arie e cantate per contralto (Delphine Galou)

And still they come. Vols 59 and 60 in Naïve’s heroic complete Vivaldi Edition, now seemingly intent on the home...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

The Pillar of the Cloud

Appointed music director at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2017, Mark Williams is only now making his first statement with the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

Messes de Barcelone et d’Apt

This programme is built around two Mass settings and two manuscripts thought to preserve polyphonic music from the Papal liturgy...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. 9 Sacred Choruses

Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Liturgy has a fundamental place in the history of Russian sacred choral music. It was published...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2019

SCHÜTZ Psalmen & Friedensmusiken

Over a decade, 19 volumes and many hours of psalms, anthems, Passions, madrigals and motets later, Hans-Christoph Rademann’s recording of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

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