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THOMAS Hamlet (Langrée)

Staged at the Opéra-Comique to mark the 150th anniversary of its premiere in the slightly grander setting of the Opéra,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

ROSSINI Zelmira (Gelmetti)

There is a sense in which Zelmira, the last of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, premiered in February 1822, is an elegantly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2020

PAER Agnese (Fasolis)

Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) is best known nowadays as the composer of Leonora (1804), based on the same subject as Fidelio,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

HANDEL Almira (O'Dette & Stubbs)

Handel’s first opera, Almira (January 1705), is the only one of his juvenile works for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre that survives...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

DONIZETTI Enrico di Borgogna (De Marchi)

When a director turns an opera eroica into a meta-theatrical farce, one has to question whether she happens to believe...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin's Spanish Legacy

All roads lead to Josquin, even those routed through the Iberian peninsula. This superb new recording from Owen Rees and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020

Fading (The Gesualdo Six)

Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

The Contrast: English Poetry in Song

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

TOMKINS O Give Thanks Unto the Lord: Choral Works

Along with Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons (and, later, Purcell), Thomas Tomkins was a member of the Chapel Royal – the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Barenboim)

Music for the Faust drama? Goethe always proposed Mozart, albeit posthumously, but Schumann – despite nerves about composing music for...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2020

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