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Review: Matrix Audio X-Sabre 3

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

| Gramophone

A slenderly proportioned, beautifully built digital unit with full network capability that can play high-resolution audio in an entirely compelling fashion

Discover the music of Brazil - a playlist

Features

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

| Gramophone

We celebrate the bicentenary of Brazilian Independence with a journey through its music

Lars Vogt: 12 unmissable recordings

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

| Gramophone

Lars Vogt was an inspirational soloist, conductor and chamber musician who produced benchmark recordings of music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven and more

Lars Vogt, pianist and conductor, has died aged 51

Classical Music News

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

| Gramophone

A much-loved musician equally admired for his recordings of concertos, chamber music and solo repertoire

Mahler from a new perspective, with François-Xavier Roth

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

| Gramophone

François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ period-instrument recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony looks set to bring about a renewed understanding of this music, finds Hugo Shirley

Dorset Opera Festival: Manon Lescaut and The Magic Flute | Live Reviews

Review

Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

The chorus is always a central focus of Dorset's set-up and once again made a strongly positive impression. Photography by Julian Guidera

Mondonville: Titon et l'Aurore (Château de Versailles Spéctacles, Paris) | Review

Review

Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

Christie and Les Arts Florissants’ ability to conjure up each rhetorical gesture was impeccably captured, right from the dynamic contrasts of the impeccably delivered Ouverture

Marina Viotti interview: ‘My aim is to try to change the image people have of classical music and opera’

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Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

Marina Viotti is a remarkable artist, with a fine, flexible, natural mezzo soprano voice that encompasses opera, jazz and metal. Having rediscovered her roots as a classical musician, she is taking the opera world by storm

Longborough Festival Opera: Die tote Stadt and Carmen | Live Reviews

Review

Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

I have never heard such a crisp rendition of Bizet's score, nor such sensuous and precise singing. Photography by Matthew Williams-Ellis

John Adams and the creation of Antony and Cleopatra

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Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

Five years and a pandemic after his last work for the stage, John Adams returns to opera with the Shakespeare-inspired Antony and Cleopatra, commissioned by San Francisco Opera and receiving its world premiere there this month

Nevill Holt: La bohème and The Barber of Seville | Live Review

Review

Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

Liam Bonthrone had all the high notes for Count Almaviva while his ability to negotiate Rossini's florid writing was impressive. Photography by Genevieve Girling