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DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Pascal)

The challenging Malmö company from the southern tip of Sweden looked largely to France (and, intriguingly, to experience of the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2018

BIZET Carmen (Carignani)

In a brief interview included as a bonus, the designer Es Devlin talks of the challenges of creating a set...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018

BELLINI I Puritani (Pidò)

This opera, Bellini’s last, has a fairly silly plot, what with Cavalier Arturo abandoning Elvira on their wedding day to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2018

The Topping Tooters of the Town: Music of the London Waits, 1580-1650

William Lyons’s brief but telling booklet notes for ‘The Topping Tooters of the Town’ read like a passionate cry of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2018

PIERNÉ; SAINT-SAËNS; DEBUSSY Violin Sonatas

In search of la petite phrase: what Francophile wouldn’t be fascinated by a recital devoted to the various real-life works...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

Intuition

‘Intuition, by Gautier Capuçon’: it sounds like an aftershave, and it’s a curious title for a distinctly counterintuitive collection of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

Gwendolyn Masin: Flame

It must be said that both the title and cover artwork of ‘Flame’ are of a decidedly ‘we’re giving you...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018

Russian Works for Cello and Piano

Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata begins with a melody low on the C string, and no expression markings: just the instruction piena...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

TELEMANN Trio Sonatas for Recorder

Look down the recording details at the back of the average CD and it’s rare to find the hour of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 15

The Artea Quartet have been playing together for 15 years so it’s a neat choice to record Schubert’s 15th Quartet....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

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