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Review of DASHOW Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol 2

DASHOW Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol 2

The heyday of electroacoustic composition, arguably from the 1950s to the 1970s when it was a vital strand of avant-garde...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

Review of BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music

BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music

Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022

Review of ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works

ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works

Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022

Review of Rivales

Rivales

This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

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Review of Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel

Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel

The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

Review of Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!

Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!

The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

Review of PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Trinks)

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Trinks)

For many years I’ve been trying to persuade people that The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev’s best opera. The others have...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2022

Review of NEUWIRTH Orlando (Pintscher)

NEUWIRTH Orlando (Pintscher)

Filmed during its opening run, Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando was the first full‑length opera by a female composer to be performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2022

Review of MOZART Così fan tutte (Mehta)

MOZART Così fan tutte (Mehta)

Two productions of Così fan tutte by Sven-Eric Bechtolf have already appeared on DVD: from Zurich, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

Review of DONIZETTI 'The Three Queens'

DONIZETTI 'The Three Queens'

Sondra Radvanovsky became the first soprano to sing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Elisabetta (in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022

 

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