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Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music

On what she has said is her last recording, Frederica von Stade applies her distinctive shine and tenderness to ‘Perhaps’,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2025

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (Welser-Möst)

It’s fascinating how quickly the tone of a recorded performance establishes itself. There’s a luxuriance about this reading both in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2025

JL ADAMS Atlas of Deep Time

Surface and depth have formed important elements in John Luther Adams’s music – whether in conveying the unforgiving landscapes of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce

Nathan Granner is an American singer in his 40s who has made a career, to quote his website, as ‘a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2024

VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)

Joan of Arc haunts the opera repertoire – an ideal opera heroine who inspired composers from Verdi to Tchaikovsky to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2024

RIHM Jacob Lenz (Ollu)

The special appeal to 20th-century opera composers of early 19th-century texts by Georg Büchner was famously established by Alban Berg,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2024

GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide (Chauvin)

The opening salvo in Gluck’s conquest of Paris, Iphigénie en Aulide scored a triumph on its premiere in April 1774...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2024

DONIZETTI Il Diluvio Universale (Frizza)

Biblical flooding is as old as the ark, but there are contemporary resonances to the story of Noah. During recent...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2024

CACCINI 'Il Concerto Caccini'

Giulio Caccini was at the epicentre of Florentine musical innovations: extravagant intermedi between the acts of plays produced to celebrate...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

CAGE; DOWLAND 'All We Get is Life'

You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

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