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DONIZETTI Le Duc d’Albe

Seasoned Donizettians will probably need a word of clarification when it comes this latest Opera Rara release; the less fully...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

Each of the 13 instrumentalists in this performance is listed separately in the booklet with a full-page photo and accompanying...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016

BERTONI Orfeo Ed Euridice

Ferdinando Bertoni knew that he was tempting fate composing Orfeo ed Euridice, to the Calzabigi libretto famously set by Gluck...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016

BALFE Satanella

Operatic weddings tend to be eventful. Still, pity Count Rupert, hero of Balfe’s 1858 opera Satanella. Not only is his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

Viri Galilaei

Bucking the trend of their recent Delphian discs, this latest offering from the Merton College Choir abandons a thematic programme...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2016

Conductus: Music & poetry from thirteenth-century France

In the third and last of their issues of 13th-century conductus arising from an AHRC research project at the University...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2016

Amuse-bouche: French Choral Delicacies

Sensuality doesn’t so much ooze as burst in ecstatic, convulsive spasms from I Fagiolini’s latest recording. If it weren’t for...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016

SCHUMANN Dichterliebe. 6 Gedichte und Requiem. 6 Gesänge Op 89

‘An exceptionally fine singer’, noted the much-missed John Steane in his review of Thomas Oliemans’s Schwanengesang (Etcetera, 3/11), while being...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

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