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Review: Handel – Enchantresses – Sandrine Piau
Soprano Sandrine Piau's latest collaboration with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas adds to her already distinguished Handel discography.
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Review: Grieg – Songs – Lise Davidsen, Leif Ove Andsnes
In their first collaboration, Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes perform Edvard Grieg's finest songs from Haugtussa and the Op. 59 Five Poems, among others.
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Year In Review – Our Top Classical Albums for 2021
We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2021 comes to an end it's time for members of The Classic Review staff…
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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: Sabine Devieilhe Sings Bach and Handel
Sabine Devieilhe is accompanied by Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, in cantatas for solo soprano by Bach and arias by Handel.
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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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Review: “Phidylé” – Kateřina Kněžíková, Soprano
Soprano Kateřina Kněžíková collaborates with Robert Jindra and the Janáček Philharmonic in a series of songs from the turn of the 20th century.