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Robert Henry: As the Songbird Sings

Although Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces hardly lack for world-class recordings, Robert Henry’s generous and big-boned yet lyrically informed pianism...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017

Aida Garifullina

If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

SOMMER Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neiße

The folk figure of Rübezahl – a kind of magic factotum, largely pro the good and anti the bad –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017

ROSSINI Si, Si, Si, Si. Opera Arias and Duets

Those with long memories may recall another disc of Rossini arias which started with ‘Cruda sorte!’ from L’italiana in Algeri....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2017

ROMBERG The Student Prince

In its heyday, Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince ruled Broadway. Its original run lasted 608 performances and during the 1920s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas

From a conceptual and presentational point of view this is all rather a muddle, but at bottom is a very...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017

Maria Bengtsson: Mozart Arias

The young Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson certainly has credentials as a lyric soprano, with a series of appearances at high-profile...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

MONDONVILLE Isbé

György Vashegyi and his excellent Hungarian choir and orchestra follow up their two-disc set of grands motets by Mondonville (7/16)...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017

MÉHUL Uthal

Released to coincide with the bicentenary of Méhul’s death, which falls this year, Christophe Rousset’s splendid recording of Uthal was...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017

DONIZETTI Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux was the third and last of Donizetti’s operas featuring Queen Elizabeth I. If no scene is quite as...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017

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