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Wide As Heaven: A Century of Song By Black American Composers

This album’s wonderfully varied programme is more than a showcase for baritone James Martin’s engrossing artistry or a historical survey....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024

ZWILICH Symphony No 5 (Rose)

Throughout a long and fertile career, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has created works rich in character and emotion, and marked by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2024

THOMSON Piano Portraits (Craig Rutenberg)

Virgil Thomson’s more than 150 musical portraits span 60 years of creative activity. With few exceptions, he composed them in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 LUDWIG Violin Concerto (Bella Hristova)

Though there’s much ingratiating listening here, the Buffalo Philharmonic’s self-produced disc is most important as a calling card to show...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY The Enchantress (Uryupin)

The Enchantress (1887) is among Tchaikovsky’s least‑known, least-performed mature operas, yet it was the one he considered his finest. Set...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

PUTS The Hours (Nézet-Séguin)

So far, The Hours has polarised opera audiences. For some, it’s an enveloping fusion of intricate dramaturgy and symphonic orchestration....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut (Villaume)

The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

Golda Schultz: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!

La povera ragazza, è pazza, amici miei. ‘The poor girl, my friends, has lost her mind’, confides Don Giovanni to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

CHARPENTIER David et Jonathas (Schneebeli)

Having rejoiced in March at the first top-class interpretation of David et Jonathas to emerge in donkey’s years, just a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2024

ADAMS The Girls of the Golden West (Adams)

The opera repertoire would be considerably diminished if composers had abandoned their ‘problem children’ at the first sign of trouble....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 06/2024

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