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GLASS Einstein on the Beach

Premiered in Avignon in August 1976, then toured across six European countries for two months before selling out New York’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

Lawrence Brownlee: Allegro io son

'Simple but not unintelligent’ is how tenor Lawrence Brownlee describes his L’elisir d’amore character Nemorino, which summarises his approach to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017

CHISHOLM Simoon

Composer, pianist, conductor, concert promoter and educator Erik Chisholm never had the attention he deserved, not at home in Scotland...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2017

BERG Lulu

Far from the monstrous doll figure of Lulus past and present, Marlis Petersen gave the Met audience a Lulu they...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

Mena: Under the Shadow

The test of a good crossover record is surely a simple one: does its fusion of genres amplify both of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017

Anne Sofie von Otter: So Many Thanks

This mix of songs by pop/jazz composers who have worked with the classics, and vice versa, goes further than mere...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017

Out of the Shadows: Rediscovered American Art songs

Lisa Delan has put together an enjoyable and valuable programme here. These are songs one hears rarely, if at all;...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017

The Franklin Effect

Rosalind Franklin (1920-58) was one of the 20th century’s most important scientists but she was deprived of her moment in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2017

Femina Moderna

Allmänna Sången was founded as an academic male-voice choir in the Swedish university city of Uppsala way back in 1830....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

Jessye Norman: Lieder

This is a fascinating and rewarding recital, which shows Jessye Norman’s considerable strengths as well as a few idiosyncrasies –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2017

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