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STRADELLA La Circe

Stradella’s serenata La Circe was commissioned by Princess Olimpia Aldobrandini, a Florentine whose deceased Roman husbands had been members of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

This is the fourth in the series of Mozart opera recordings from the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden masterminded by Yannick Nézet-Séguin...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Soon after the past year’s flurry from Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, 10/15), Nézet-Séguin (DG, 8/15) and the Glyndebourne production by David...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

MARTINŮ Julietta

Do you stay in the dream or wake up? Anticipating the red or blue pill choice offered to the hero...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2016

LEHÁR Giuditta

Under the Mediterranean sun, a young soldier falls hard for a free-spirited beauty – and sacrifices honour and happiness in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

DONIZETTI Poliuto

It was slightly unfortunate timing that Glyndebourne scheduled the UK professional premiere of Poliuto just six months after Opera Rara...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

Martha Argerich: Early Recordings

The difficulty in writing about the piano playing of Martha Argerich is that it is now, and always has been,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

WOLF Kennst du das Land?

A lovely Handel and Mozart singer, Sophie Karthäuser here proves herself a natural in Lieder. In a discography dominated by...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

MACMILLAN Since it was the Day of Preparation

Few composers in recent times have so unequivocally brought their faith into the concert arena as has James MacMillan. Here...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016

EŠENVALDS Passion according to St Luke. The First Tears

Ešenvalds’s St Luke Passion (2014) plunges the listener straight into the midst of the Crucifixion scene, rushing strings underlying the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2016

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