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PURCELL Dido and Aeneas (Bates)

The domestic, small-scale associations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a girls’ school in Chelsea cling persistently to the composer’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

Jonathan Tetelman: The Great Puccini

'Tetelman is the real deal’ was how I concluded my review of the Chilean-American tenor’s debut album last year (10/22)....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23

MASSENET Ariane (Campellone)

With the great successes of Manon and Werther behind him, Jules Massenet sought creative renewal in Ariane (1906), a durable,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW23

JANÁCEK The Cunning Little Vixen BOLLON Twelve Lilies for Leoš

And still they come, the Covid projects. Why record them? It’s understandable that during the period of social distancing, the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

HUMPERDINCK Königskinder (Albrecht)

There aren’t many operatic scores with the consistent beauty, embrace, virility and honesty of Königskinder that remain effectively outside the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW23

Orpheus' Echo - A Carolignian Soundscape (Per-Sonat. Sabine Lutzenberger )

This is a rarity. With 174 pieces of two-voice music, the Winchester Troper is by far the world’s earliest substantial...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW23

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Richard Resch)

Regensburg-born tenor Richard Resch’s debut album – a selection of early Baroque cantatas from north Germany – received a warm...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW23

RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Romances (Piotr Beczala)

There are not many tenors who have recorded discs of Russian romances, so this new Pentatone release of Tchaikovsky and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23

MOZART Mass in C minor CPE BACH Heilig ist Gott

Choice in Mozart’s unfinished C minor Mass gets gradually more generous. For decades, the standard version of the score came...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MENDELSSOHN Elias (Sawallisch)

A great Elijah should grab you even before the Overture – those sombre chords, that ringing proclamation. This recording, taken...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

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