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Review of Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce

Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce

Nathan Granner is an American singer in his 40s who has made a career, to quote his website, as ‘a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2024

Review of VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)

VERDI Giovanna d’Arco (Bosch)

Joan of Arc haunts the opera repertoire – an ideal opera heroine who inspired composers from Verdi to Tchaikovsky to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2024

Review of RIHM Jacob Lenz (Ollu)

RIHM Jacob Lenz (Ollu)

The special appeal to 20th-century opera composers of early 19th-century texts by Georg Büchner was famously established by Alban Berg,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2024

Review of GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide (Chauvin)

GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide (Chauvin)

The opening salvo in Gluck’s conquest of Paris, Iphigénie en Aulide scored a triumph on its premiere in April 1774...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2024

Review of DONIZETTI Il Diluvio Universale (Frizza)

DONIZETTI Il Diluvio Universale (Frizza)

Biblical flooding is as old as the ark, but there are contemporary resonances to the story of Noah. During recent...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2024

Review of CACCINI 'Il Concerto Caccini'

CACCINI 'Il Concerto Caccini'

Giulio Caccini was at the epicentre of Florentine musical innovations: extravagant intermedi between the acts of plays produced to celebrate...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

Review of CAGE; DOWLAND 'All We Get is Life'

CAGE; DOWLAND 'All We Get is Life'

You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

Review of WALTON 'The Complete Songbook'

WALTON 'The Complete Songbook'

In the mid-1950s a Cambridge undergraduate asked his professor why William Walton had never produced a successor to the great...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024

Review of STRADELLA Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

STRADELLA Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

Alessandro Stradella’s life reads like a modern-day novel by Donna Leon, since his brief biography includes fleeing from matchmaking troubles...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

Review of SCHÜTZ Weihnachtshistorie (Meunier. Wilson)

SCHÜTZ Weihnachtshistorie (Meunier. Wilson)

Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie was probably first performed on Christmas Day 1660 at the Dresden court chapel, but when it was published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

 

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