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PURCELL The Indian Queen

The American comedian Tina Fey has a deadly one-liner about the Oscar-spattered film 12 Years a Slave. ‘What a great...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016

NIELSEN Saul and David

No chauvinism here on the staging side. A British team of David Pountney and Robert Innes Hopkins contribute to the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2016

MAYR Saffo

How fascinating it is to have a first recording, and a very fine one at that, of what must be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

HANDEL Imeneo

The libretto of Handel’s penultimate opera Imeneo is based loosely on the legend of Hymen, the Greek god of marriage:...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

HANDEL Acis and Galatea

Described by an eyewitness in June 1718 as a ‘little opera’, the origins of Acis and Galatea as an outdoor...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

Eugene Istomin: The Concert & Solo Recordings

Past assessments of the pianist Eugene Istomin (1925-2003) have too often delivered the metaphorical verdict ‘always the bridesmaid, never the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

Singing Cello

At first glance one might think that the title of this disc heralds a selection of songs transcribed for cello....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016

Harmonie & Turcherie

The Habsburg Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire following the Siege of Vienna in 1683, ending the centuries of Muslim incursions...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY; SMETANA Piano Trios

Among these piano trios’ defining features, optimism does not loom high. Smetana’s mourns his eldest daughter Bedřiška, who had just...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2016

Schubertiade

This is the second release on Alpha to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jos van Immerseel. The first was a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016

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