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HANDEL Acis and Galatea (Christophers)

As David Vickers pointed out in his Gramophone Collection article last October, it took a long time for recordings of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

CHARPENTIER Les arts florissans. La couronne de fleurs

Charpentier’s pastoral entertainments Les arts florissans and La couronne de fleurs (1685) were commissioned by the Mademoiselle de Guise to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2019

CELLIER Dorothy (Bonynge)

If asked to name the most successful English operetta of the 19th century, you’d probably go for The Mikado or...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

CAVALLI Ombra mai fu (Philippe Jaroussky)

Francesco Cavalli’s 33 surviving operas provide a rich playground for any period performer and the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky throws himself...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019

ADÈS The Exterminating Angel

Screen filming can do a troubled opera like this one a multitude of favours. When I saw Tom Cairns’s production...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

Karim Said: Legacy

The thematic trajectory of Karim Said’s recital concerns the connection between composers and their disciples, with works by William Byrd...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

Tamara Stefanovich: Influences

Each of the four pieces on this disc specifically embraces diverse cultural references: Ives’s First Sonata’s American popular idioms circa...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

From Byrd to Byrd

Friederike Chylek, a German harpsichordist who has specialised in English keyboard music of the 16th and 17th centuries, has released...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2019

The French Piano School 1 & 2

APR is launching a fascinating new series of recordings devoted to French pianism called ‘The French Piano School’. As Charles...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 5 (Lukas Geniusas)

The story of the underdog supposedly autodidact Frenchman Lucas Debargue getting to the finals of 2015 Tchaikovsky competition stole the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

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