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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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Review: “Freudvoll und Leidvoll” – Songs by Liszt – Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch feature some of Franz Liszt's finest songs.
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Review: “Verklärte Nacht” – Rice, Skelton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gardner
Edward Gardner in two interpretations of Richard Dehmel’s “Verklärte Nacht”, one by Schoenberg and the other by Oskar Fried, with tone poems by Korngold and Lehár.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, December 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: “Amici e Rivali” – Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres perform Rossini
Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres perform duets and scenes from Rossini's operas. They are joined by mezzo Tara Erraught and tenor Xabier Anduaga.
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Review: Mahler – Das lied von der Erde – Ivan Fischer
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform Mahler's Das Lied von der Eder, with alto Gerhild Romberger and baritone Robert Dean Smith.
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Review: Beethoven – Songs and Folksongs – Bostridge, Pappano
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano perform Beethoven's “An die Ferne Geliebte” and a selection of the composer's arrangement of Irish and Scottish folksongs.
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Review: Vincerò! – Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Tenor Piotr Beczala performs famous Verismo arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo and others, with Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana under Marco Boemi
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Review: Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor – Deutsche Grammophon (2019)
In his debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, tenor Benjamin Bernheim sings opera arias by French and Italian composers.
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Review: Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – COE, Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues his Mozart opera series for Deutsche Grammophon, this time conducting "Die Zauberflöte"