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VERDI Ernani (Mazzola)
Verdi’s Ernani? Or the Brad Pitt movie Fight Club? This new DVD sounds like the former but looks like the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2025
BOITO Nerone (Cilluffo)
Verdi’s librettist on Otello and Falstaff, Arrigo Boito was also a noted composer. His most famous work, Mefistofele, is still...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025
BIZET Carmen (Glassberg)
Étienne Jardin, director of research for Palazzetto Bru Zane, acknowledges that their latest endeavour proved controversial. ‘In 2023, this historical...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2025
BELLINI Norma (Fiore)
Released by Marina Rebeka’s own label Prima Classic, this is the first studio recording of Norma to appear in over...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2025
Voices of Thunder
The installation of a new pipe organ, like any long-awaited new arrival, is always best marked with some kind of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025
A New Spirit
The 23-strong Caritas Chamber Choir was founded in 2011 and is based in East Kent. The choir’s seventh CD release...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025
Les musiques de Molière
William Christie explores the essential function that music had in Molière’s comedies, although this is not exactly a ‘new’ album...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025
A Monk's Life
This is a superb programme mining a rich vein of post-Reformation music from German-speaking countries, all sung with the characteristic...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025
Lucrezia: Portraits of a Woman
These four gripping Baroque cantatas depict the anguish, fury and suicide of Lucrezia after her rape by Sextus Tarquinius (son...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025
Illuminate
It’s tough luck on this new performance of Britten’s masterwork that it came my way so soon after I’d revisited...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2025
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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