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MIKHASHOFF Songs and Dances

Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024

GLANCEY Ashes to Impulse

The road towards recognition has been a somewhat slow and circuitous one for Gregory T Glancey. Indeed, one of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2024

Diana Damrau: Operette - Wien, Berlin, Paris

Operetta recitals by star soloists have a long, if patchy, pedigree. Now Diana Damrau steps up, and it needs to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024

WAGNER Siegfried (Rattle)

Individual elements of this Siegfried live up to the high standards set by the previous instalments of the BRSO/Rattle concert...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

RIMSKY KORSAKOV Christmas Eve (Weigle)

It’s the night before Christmas, and while the villagers of Dikanka gossip and drink vodka, the Devil is up to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024

DONIZETTI La Favorite (Frizza)

Filmed at the 2022 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Favorite is at once imperfect and significant: imperfect because there...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2024

DELIBES Lakmé (Pichon)

Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024

Jakub Józef Orlinski: Beyond

Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024

WEELKES 'Gentleman Extraordinary'

Described as ‘Ireland’s premiere project choir’, Resurgam make their first commercial recording in collaboration with The English Cornett and Sackbut...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2024

SCHUBERT Lieder with Orchestra (Benjamin Appl)

‘Are orchestral versions of Schubert’s lieder really necessary?’ asks Benjamin Appl at the start of his booklet note. It’s a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2024

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