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DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor (Oren)

‘I have a very strong feminist agenda. My focus for this opera is 100 per cent on the female characters.’...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

BELLINI Norma (Pappano)

This was the production that should have marked Anna Netrebko’s role debut as Bellini’s turbulent priestess. Instead the Bulgarian soprano...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018

DEBUSSY Piano Music (Hough; Cho)

Hyperion has been keeping Roger Nichols particularly busy of late, writing the notes for Steven Osborne’s Debussy recital (enthusiastically reviewed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018

A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf

After delighting us with the music of Jacobean and Italian Renaissance masters of the lute in his previous two recordings,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2018

Sofya Gulyak: Chaconne

Sofya Gulyak builds her new Champs Hill release around a series of chaconnes, dating from the early 18th century through...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018

SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas (van den Bercken)

There’s a sense of care about the whole production here, from the specially created cover art to the choice of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No 2 SCARLATTI; PROKOFIEV Piano sonatas

Winner of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, Dmitry Masleev delivers his six chosen Scarlatti sonatas, all in the minor mode, with...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2018

PAGANINI 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Sueye Park)

The first point worth making is that BIS’s recording of the featured Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin (Cremona, 1739) is extremely...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018

KOMITAS Seven Songs

The eventful and ultimately tragic life of Komitas (aka Soghomon Soghominian, 1869-1935) might well overshadow his legacy as collector of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018

BRAHMS Handel Variations. Ballades Op 10

What constitutes interpretation? Surely every artist worthy of the name seeks to internalise the message of the music she or...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018

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