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BERG Lulu

A set of transparent plexiglass chambers functions effectively as the space inside Lulu’s head. It’s mostly empty, with the singers...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2017

ANDRIESSEN Theatre of the World

Louis Andriessen’s operas have possessed more than their fair share of bizarre plots, grotesque twists, surreal scenarios and outlandish characters...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2017

Sous L'empire d'Amour

To say that this disc represents all that is worst about the classical recording industry is no reflection on either...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2017

Secret History

Polyphony in the Renaissance was performed in all sorts of ways, from a profusion of voices and instruments to a single lutenist or a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017

Lost is my Quiet

The billing promises much, and the performances certainly deliver. Colleagues in Baroque oratorio and opera for nigh on a decade, Carolyn Sampson...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017

Handel at Vauxhall, Vol 2

Vauxhall Gardens was a popular attraction among fashionable society in early Georgian London – but there is seldom precise information about...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017

SCHUMANN; MAHLER Lieder (Florian Boesch)

An oddly muted, inconsistent release here. Florian Boesch’s German Lieder recordings have been so strong, one is inclined to snap up...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2017

ROSSINI Stabat Mater

There is bound to be a sense of regret that so musically judicious an account of the first of Rossini’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017

PALESTRINA Choral works, Vol 7

After a hiatus of a couple of years The Sixteen’s Palestrina project resumes, this time featuring music for female saints...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Requiem (Malcolm Archer)

I fear this disc of Mozart’s valedictory masterpiece may fall into the shadow of another (rather different) recording, reviewed above. Such...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017

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