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HYDE That Man Stephen Ward

Thomas Hyde’s one-man chamber opera about the society osteopath scapegoated during the Profumo affair dates from 2008, when it was...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17

HASSE Attilio Regolo

Marcus Attilius Regulus (d250 BC) was a Roman general who, initially victorious, became a prisoner in Carthage. Sent to Rome with...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW17

GOUNOD Faust (Vienna Phil, Pérez)

‘Death is nothingness’, sings Iago at the end of his Credo in Verdi’s Otello. It could be the motto for Reinhard von...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW17

GETTY The Canterville Ghost

Despite its conventionally sentimental conclusion, most of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost is a laugh-out-loud satire on the foibles of an American family...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW17

CHARPENTIER La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers

This recording of La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, Charpentier’s two-act operatic fragment dating from the mid-1680s, eloquently brings to life...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW17

BELLINI Bianca e Gernando

Here’s an operatic ‘first’ from the Rossini in Wildbad festival which isn’t by the Swan of Pesaro himself. Bianca e...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW17

Nature and the Soul

This is a collection of Latvian choral music selected in honour of the centenary of the independence of Latvia. As...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW17

Joo Yeon Sir: Suites and Fantasies

You won’t find any biographical information about Joo Yeon Sir in Rubicon’s basic booklet: you are kindly referred to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017

From Vienna

This is a generously filled set, and at first glance the idea is appealing – a disc of chamber music...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017

Flux: Original Works for Saxophone Quartet

I’m not sure it’s possible for a saxophone quartet to be a warhorse, as such; nonetheless, I was initially mildly...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017

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