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Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is an interesting figure. Italian by birth, he spent his working life in Germany. Composer, priest –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2017
Of Saint-Saëns’s 13 operas, only Samson et Dalila is a repertory staple. Palazzetto Bru Zane’s mission to promote rare French...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
This 2016 Glyndebourne production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia was the first to be staged there since the elegantly...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2017
Ravel was never more sincere than in his works devoted to childhood, the theme for this fifth volume in Stéphane...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
It’s not clear what La Scala intended to capture for posterity in this recording. The singers, orchestra and chorus are...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2017
Martinů’s The Greek Passion, with its tale of refugees and the lack of tolerance which divides the community where they...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
All-Gluck aria discs are still not all that common. This century has seen fine examples from Daniel Behle (Decca, 9/14)...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017
A generous cocktail of melodies and a conjuror’s hat of pointedly apt dramaturgical settings make up Berlioz’s late (1862) setting...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2017
This tremendous, heady disc finds Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet examining sub-cults of visionaries, saints and mystics in some of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
Armide (1686) was the last collaboration between Lully and the librettist Quinault. Considered by contemporaries as the perfect exemplar of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2017
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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