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WAGNER Tristan und Isolde. Parsifal (Solti)

After Solti’s two Strauss one-acters with Birgit Nilsson (10/17), Decca now gives the lavish hi res reissue treatment to two...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018

SMYTH The Boatswain's Mate

‘I want a great rollicking sound’, Ethel Smyth told the BBC Symphony Orchestra at rehearsals for her 1914 comic opera....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2018

PORPORA Opera Arias (Cencic)

Max Emanuel Cencic, once dubbed by Tim Ashley ‘the cult Croatian countertenor’, brings his trademark mix of flamboyance and sensitivity...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

MEYERBEER Le Prophète

It’s cruelly ironic that, with Meyerbeer performances still a comparative rarity (apart from, perhaps, in a range of smaller German...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018

GIACOMELLI Fiamma vorace

Max Emanuel Cencic, Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato are among the many singers to have recorded arias by Geminiano Giacomelli...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018

Handel's Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London

Lest we British get too proprietorial about Handel, it’s worth remembering that his oratorio casts were cosmopolitan right to the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

Sollazzo Ensemble: Dreams and Visions in the Middle Ages

Sollazzo, whose second recording this is, have been making a name for themselves since their formation in 2014. As with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2018

Calen-o: Songs from the North of Ireland

This CD reminds us of the fount of fine vocal repertoire available from the province of Ulster. Charles Wood is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2018

VIVALDI Gloria (Fasolis)

If this is a Vivaldi sacred ‘pops’ programme, then it’s a neat one: the evergreen Gloria, followed by spotlight motets...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories

The works on this disc are taken from Victoria’s Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae (published Rome, 1585), a vast offering of polyphonic...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2018

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