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Giulio Cesare: A Baroque Hero

Today Julius Caesar is all but synonymous musically with Handel’s Giulio Cesare. But, as countertenor Raffaele Pe here demonstrates, the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019

VERDI Macbeth (Ferro)

A Macbeth cast entirely with Italians, with an Italian production team, filmed in Italy: this release has claims to a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019

RUBINSTEIN Moses (Jurowski)

Moses and the Israelites were cursed with 40 years’ wandering in the wilderness. Those who survive the three CDs of...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2019

ROUSSEAU Le devin du village (d’Hérin)

Hard on the heels of the boy Mozart’s parody, Bastien und Bastienne (Signum, A/18), comes the original. The Village Soothsayer...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2019

ROSSINI Maometto II (Fogliani)

Maometto II is one of Rossini’s grandest operas, a tale of love and war inspired by Mehmet II’s destruction of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2019

Aleksandra Kurzak; Roberto Alagna: Puccini in Love

In his booklet note to this disc of love duets, Roberto Alagna argues that all the female characters represent different...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2019

PAGLIARDI Caligula (Dumestre)

Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637-1702) composed operatic entertainments for the Medici and was maestro di cappella at their church, San Lorenzo...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2019

MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro (Dudamel)

As the Overture plays, the main characters enter via a walkway that extends across the auditorium behind the conductor. They...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2019

MARTINU What Men Live By. Symphony No 1 (Bělohlávek)

Depending how you count them, there are 16 Martinů operas, ranging from single-acters – Alexandre bis (1937) and Ariane (1958)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

KORNGOLD Das Wunder der Heliane (Bollon)

A new recording of Das Wunder der Heliane is, by definition, an event. The premiere recording in 1993 marked the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019

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