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Review of PURCELL The Indian Queen

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

Review of NIELSEN Saul and David

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

Review of MAYR Saffo

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

Review of HANDEL Imeneo

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

Review of HANDEL Acis and Galatea

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

Review of Eugene Istomin: The Concert & Solo Recordings

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

Review of Singing Cello

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

Review of Harmonie & Turcherie

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

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY; SMETANA Piano Trios

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

Review of Schubertiade

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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