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Mozart: Così fan tutte at Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet | Live Review

Review

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| Opera Now

Théâtre du Châtelet breathes new life into Mozart's opera

Wagner: Siegfried by Regents Opera at Freemason’s Hall | Live Review

Review

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| Opera Now

Regent's Opera presents Wagner's Siegfried

Stephen McNeff: A Star Next to the Moon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama | Live Review

Review

Thursday, February 29, 2024

| Opera Now

'Its conflicts and contrasts never quite allow the audience to get too comfortable, and the delivery on stage suitably portrayed an unnerving portrait'

Puccini: Turandot at Malmö Opera | Live Review

Review

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Opera Now

'Sofia Jupither’s staging of Turandot does away with blood and guts, focusing instead on a tangible sense of hope and a community clinging to it with every fibre it has'

Daniel Knaggs: Two Streams

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Knaggs embraces many historical influences, powerfully and unapologetically evident in an instantly relatable work

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman at Gothenburg Opera | Live Review

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Opera Now

Some outstanding singing in a production with insufficient narrative in place

Langlais: Organ Music, Vol 1 (Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Across this whole volume there is simply not enough care and attention paid to legato phrasing of melodic line, particular in the pedal parts

Sancte Paule Apostole: Music from The Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Psalms and hymns are performed with as much care as the less familiar works

Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

No one who loves Pärt’s music will want to be without this set

Folks’ Music (Paul Hillier)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

They reflect the meticulously-punctuated theme of that edition of the festival: the idea that new music in the western classical tradition belongs to us all

Antonio Caldara: Gloria; Respighi: Lauda per la Nativita del Signore (Mirko Guadagnini)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

A lively instrumental introduction to this performance leads to disappointment when the choir enters

Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio (Benjamin Nicholas)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Sarah Connolly conveys Mary’s wonderment and even fear with grace and not a flutter of girlishness

JS Bach: Organ Transcriptions (Wolfgang Rübsam)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Every note, every rhythmic delay, every extended up-beat, every spread chord is planned with astonishing detail

Arvo Pärt: Tractus (Tönu Klajuste)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The vocal works seem to transcend speech, while the orchestral pieces clearly articulate their source texts

Apollo5: Haven

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Some of the most insightfully earthy singing of Byrd (the Mass for Five Voices) you’re likely to hear

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Mozart: Così fan tutte at Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet | Live Review

Wagner: Siegfried by Regents Opera at Freemason’s Hall | Live Review

Stephen McNeff: A Star Next to the Moon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama | Live Review

Puccini: Turandot at Malmö Opera | Live Review

Daniel Knaggs: Two Streams

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman at Gothenburg Opera | Live Review

Langlais: Organ Music, Vol 1 (Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali)

Sancte Paule Apostole: Music from The Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)

Folks’ Music (Paul Hillier)

Antonio Caldara: Gloria; Respighi: Lauda per la Nativita del Signore (Mirko Guadagnini)

Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio (Benjamin Nicholas)

JS Bach: Organ Transcriptions (Wolfgang Rübsam)

Arvo Pärt: Tractus (Tönu Klajuste)

Apollo5: Haven

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