Album Reviews
Review: Mozart x 3 – Elsa Dreisig, Soprano
Soprano Elsa Dreisig, in a collaboration with Kammerorchester Basel, performs some of Mozart's best loved arias from his da Ponte and seria operas.
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Review: Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II – Andreas Staier, Harpsichord
Period instrumentalist Andreas Staier revisits Bach, performing the second book of the Well-Tempered Clavier on a harpsichord.
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Review: Puccini – Madama Butterfly – Foster
Soprano Melody Moore, tenor Stefano Secco, and Orquestra Gulbenkian feature in a new performance of Puccini's iconic Madama Butterfly.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, December 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Anima Aeterna – Jakub Józef Orlińsky, Countertenor
Jakub Józef Orlińsky's third solo album with Il Pomo d’Oro continues his Baroque journey and presents a selection of well-known works with world premieres.
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Review: Amata della Tenebre – Anna Netrebko, Soprano
Soprano Anna Netrebko presents her first solo album in five years with opera's most iconic arias from Purcell, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, and Wagner.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Passion – Véronique Gens, Soprano
Soprano Véronique Gens in a sequence of works by Lully, Collasse and Desmarets, forming "an imaginative opera".
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Beethoven – Fidelio – Davidsen, Janowski
Lise Davidsen takes on the role of Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, with Dresdner Philharmonie under Marek Janowski.