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MERCADANTE I Briganti

Mercadante seems to have been born to disappoint. Henry Chorley said as much at the time of the 1836 Paris...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2014

DONIZETTI L'Elisir D'Amore

There have already been two other DVDs of L’elisir d’amore with Rolando Villazón in the cast but this is the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

CILEA L'Arlesiana

Francesco Cilea’s L’arlesiana – based on the play, Alphonse Daudet’s L’arlésienne, for which Bizet provided his famous incidental music –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2014

SCHUMANN Kinderszenen. Abegg Variations

For her eighth Naïve CD Lise de la Salle turns to Schumann, ranging from Kinderszenen (most touching of childhood visions...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

CRANE Chamber Works 1992 - 2009

It’s 4.30 in the morning and you sit in an airport lounge feeling dazed and displaced, reflecting on the fact...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

My Beloved's Voice

Jesus College, Cambridge, has ‘choirs’ rather than a choir: the all-male Chapel Choir with its boy trebles, the mixed College...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014

Fermate Il Passo: Tracing The Origins Of Opera

It was a mark of good breeding for the Renaissance gentleman to accompany himself on a string instrument. Nowadays, the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2014

TOMKINS When David Heard

There is remarkably little of Thomas Tomkins’s sacred music on disc in comparison to his contemporaries (and his teacher, William...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2014

MOULINIÉ Meslanges

Etienne Moulinié (1599-1676) was director of music to Louis XIII’s rebellious younger brother Duke Gaston of Orléans; he also served...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

JANÁČEK Glagolitic Mass. The Eternal Gospel

That the Glagolitic Mass has a complex history is by now common knowledge. Not long ago a score of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2014

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