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REALE 'American Mosaic'

Out of an opening cry and terse introduction, Kim Cook rises magnificently in Paul Reale’s Cello Concerto against a landscape...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2024

American Counterpoints

So many composers have been neglected in concert halls and opera houses due to prejudice that devoted musicians have decided...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024

KARCHIN 'Keyboards/Winds'

>Like most earthlings during the coronavirus pandemic, Louis Karchin had an inordinate amount of time on his hands. He responded...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024

ROSSINI Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Fogliani)

Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra was an important turning point, both in Rossini’s career and in the development of serious opera in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2024

MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana (Hengelbrock)

Here’s a Cavalleria rusticana with a difference. Not only do Thomas Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann forces offer historically informed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024

CIMAROSA L'Italiana in Londra (Hussain)

Premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in 1779, Cimarosa’s breezy intermezzo comico L’italiana in Londra made his European reputation. Playing on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024

CHARPENTIER Médée (Niquet)

This is only the third commercial sound recording of Médée (1693) – the first to come along in nearly 30...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2024

BORGSTRØM Fiskeren (Boye Hansen)

I’m all for full-scale operas that clock in under 90 minutes. And that’s far from the only good thing about...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

A Gardener’s World : Flowers in Song

It’s appropriate that Alessandro Fisher’s debut on Rubicon should be a recording of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2024

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Retrospect'

Norman Del Mar’s version of In Windsor Forest (the cantata that Vaughan Williams compiled from his opera Sir John in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

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